Patents Assigned to Box, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11334470
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and methods for performing automated browser testing on different native file types by receiving files of different types. A preview version of each file can be generated and rendered in an output file type. Generating the preview version can be performed by a preview application executed by the testing system and rendering the preview version of the first file can be performed by a browser application executed by the testing system. The output file type can be different from the received file type. For example, the received file type can be a native file type of a first application different from the browser and the output file type comprises an HyperText Markup Language (HTML) file type. A test can be executed on the rendered preview version based on one or more assertions on the first file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kahn, Claudio Bartolini, Denali Lumma
  • Patent number: 11334526
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for content management and collaboration systems. Embodiments address handling remotely-stored preformatted previews of remotely stored content objects for display on a user device without having to store a local copy of the remotely stored content objects to the user device. A user operates a content object viewer that is provided as part of the operating system running on the user device. As provided, the content object viewer includes a graphical user interface for accessing files of the operating system. Using the graphical user interface capabilities of the content object viewer, the user selects a particular one of the remotely stored content objects. Upon such selection, the content object viewer displays a preview of the particular one of the remotely stored content objects without having to have a local copy of the particular one of the remotely stored content objects at the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Khajuria, Jeremy Spiegel
  • Patent number: 11303105
    Abstract: A method of insulating an electrical switch/outlet/fixture box installed in an exterior wall comprising a plurality of vertically extending studs, a first insulating material disposed between the plurality of vertically extending studs, a water vapor barrier extending over the first insulating material, furring extending horizontally over the first insulating material and a finishing panel attached to the furring, using an insulated box, the method comprising the steps of making an opening in the water vapor barrier adjacent to one of the plurality of vertically extending studs; introducing the insulated box into the vapor barrier opening; introducing the electrical switch/outlet/fixture box into the insulated box; and attaching the electrical switch/outlet/fixture box and the insulated box to the one of the plurality of vertically extending studs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: IZO BOX, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Labonte, Simon Prud'Homme
  • Publication number: 20220108065
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for content management systems. A content management system is configured to manage a plurality of content objects. Unsupervised learning is performed over the plurality of content objects to identify document templates that are associated with content objects taken from the plurality of content objects. When a document template is identified, then template metadata is associated with the document template. Additional content objects that are similar to the document template can take on the template metadata as well. In this way, many documents can be automatically populated with template metadata that corresponds to the identified document template. All or portions of the template metadata can be applied to policies, which policies serve to marshal ongoing document handling operations. During learning, document features are extracted and analyzed so as to define feature clusters, which feature clusters are in turn are used to form document template clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Kave Eshghi, Victor De Vansa Vikramaratne
  • Publication number: 20220083604
    Abstract: Various corpora of content objects and other information sources beyond the corpora of content objects are processed to identify personally identifiable information (PII). PII that is associated with a named person is codified into a first portion of a graph-oriented data structure. Also, PII that is associated with an alias that might refer to a named person is codified into a second portion of the graph-oriented data structure. A determination is made that the alias that might refer to a named person is indeed an alias that is a coreference to the named person. Based on that determination then, since the first portion of the graph and the second portion of the graph refer to the same person, then the PII of the second portion of the graph can be deemed to be PII of the same person. PII in common and/or language processing can be used to establish coreferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventor: Alok Ojha
  • Publication number: 20220083679
    Abstract: Processing user-triggered, broker-assisted workflows. A content management system is configured to host a hierarchy of content objects that are partitioned into two or more user contexts. A first workflow object is configured and then stored into a first one of the two or more user contexts. A computer-implemented service agent is configured to receive a workflow trigger from an event raised in a second one of the two or more user contexts. The computer-implemented service agent executes in the second one of the two or more user contexts while processing the first workflow object using permissions that are associated with the first one of the two or more user contexts. The computer-implemented service agent processes the workflow object in the context of the first one of the two or more user contexts. Results from execution of the workflow objects are provided to the process that raised the workflow trigger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Hiller, Jón Tómas Grétarsson, Steven Chang, Ivan SABININ, Ravneet UBEROI
  • Publication number: 20220083335
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for managing workflows between multiple third-party systems. A content management system stores a workflow that operates over content objects by invoking third-party applications. The content management system invokes these third-party applications, and these applications make modifications to the progression of the workflows as the third-party applications carry-out their specific portions of the workflow. Upon receipt of a workflow variable value from a first third-party application, the content management system determines the semantics of the workflow variable value and caries out a next portion of the workflow. The content management system then invokes a further next portion of the workflow to be carried out by a second third-party application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Philip HILLER, Jón Tómas GRÉTARSSON, Seth Morgan Luce VOLTZ, Ravneet UBEROI
  • Publication number: 20220086518
    Abstract: Content object operations over content objects of a content management system are prioritized to be performed immediately, or at a later time. The immediate scheduling of an operation is determined by policies, rules, and/or predictive model outcomes. The determination for later time scheduling is based on analysis of a history of events on content objects. If the content object operation is deemed to be at least potentially delayable to a later time, then a scheduling model is consulted to determine an urgency of performing the content object operation on the content object. The urgency value resulting from consulting the scheduling model is combined with then-current resource availability to determine a timeframe for performance of the content object operation on the content object relative to other entries in a continuously updated list of to-be-performed operations. The performance of the content object operation on the content object is initiated in due course.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor De Vansa Vikramaratne, Kave Eshghi, David Vengerov
  • Publication number: 20220086238
    Abstract: A web conferencing system is hosted in a first computing environment and is Internet-connected with a content management system hosted in a second computing environment. Upon detection of an occurrence of a file or folder drag-and-drop event at the web conferencing system, the file or folder corresponding to the drag-and-drop event is made available to the content management system. A directory hierarchy of a file system of the content management system is generated on-the-fly. The content management system initiates operations to retrieve and store a copy of the file or folder into the director hierarchy. Access permissions corresponding to locations within the directory hierarchy where the copy of the file or folder is stored are established such that users of the web conferencing system who were not users of the content management system can access the copy of the file or folder that is stored in the content management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle Sangeun Oh, Derrik Randal Lansing, Nathaniel Schlein, Aaron Levie, Prachi Subhash Jadhav, Andrew Edelman, Faizan N. Buzdar
  • Publication number: 20220086200
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for integrating content management systems with web conferencing facilities. An overlay annotation generated via a web conferencing facility is associated with a content object of a content management system. Integration code at the web conferencing facility displays a portion of the content object of the content management system. As user generates an overlay annotation during the web conferencing session while the content object is displayed in an interaction window of the web conferencing facility. After the overlay annotation has been captured, the content management system receives the overlay annotation from the web conferencing facility and stores the overlay annotation in an annotation content object separate from the content object of the content management system. Registrations and other associations between the overlay annotation object and the content object itself are stored for either or both of the overlay annotation object and the content object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Derrik Randal Lansing, Michelle Sangeun Oh
  • Publication number: 20220083601
    Abstract: Various corpora of content objects and other information sources beyond the corpora of content objects are processed to identify personally identifiable information (PII). PII that is associated with a named person is codified into a first portion of a graph-oriented data structure. Also, PII that is associated with an alias that might refer to a named person is codified into a second portion of the graph-oriented data structure. A determination is made that the alias that might refer to a named person is indeed an alias that is a coreference to the named person. Based on that determination then, since the first portion of the graph and the second portion of the graph refer to the same person, then the PII of the second portion of the graph can be deemed to be PII of the same person. PII in common and/or language processing can be used to establish coreferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventor: Alok Ojha
  • Publication number: 20220086163
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for content management systems. Multiple components are operatively interconnected to carry out operations for establishing a user device trust level. A content management system facilitates interactions between a plurality of user devices and a plurality of shared content objects. The plurality of user devices are network connected to the content management system. One of the user devices issues a request to access a particular one of the content objects. Responsive to the request, a two-step device check is performed before granting access to the particular one of the content objects. A first step of the two-step device check process is based on login information, and a second step of the two-step device check process is based at least in part on analysis of the content of the particular one of the content objects. The actual bits of the content object itself are inspected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjiv Pandey, Kechen Huang, Kanav Gandhi, Yi Zhao
  • Patent number: 11269815
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for detecting and providing warnings of potential data loss on termination of a client application of a cloud-based storage system. According to one embodiment, an attempt to log out or otherwise terminate the cloud services client application can be detected and local files at risk of losing data can be identified. A warning can then be presented to the user. For example, a warning can be presented on a display of the client device identifying local files at risk of data loss for various reasons such as those files that are still open by an application, files that are in the process of, but not yet finished, being synchronized, and files that cannot be synchronized. The user can then be given the option to continue or can cancel the termination and attempt to remedy the situation(s) creating the risk of data loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: David Sawyer, Bryn Aspestrand, Kevin Wojniak, Kyle Williams, Darryl Trujillo
  • Patent number: 11246424
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved furniture system, particularly a sofa and a bed, which is reduced to a minimum volume for transportation. The minimum volume is created to meet the current requirements for e-commerce. A flexible foldable honeycomb structure is used in manufacturing a supporting structure for a seat and a bed frame, wherein the hexagonal shape of said structure is strong and stable and provides a high bearing capacity versus weight. The honeycomb structure is designed to be foldable and used for saving space and to be easier for delivery in a box that fits in a small car, wherein said structure used flaccid materials that are glued to each other in certain way to open and close easily, wherein the number of layers of the flaccid materials determines the expansion length of the structure and these layers together is called a block of honeycomb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ELEPHANT IN A BOX, INC.
    Inventor: Mohamed El Sayed Ahmed Kamal El Din
  • Patent number: 11250143
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach to implement a new layer of security within mobile devices using an encryption SDK, which implements a standalone component for applications to encrypt, decrypt, and view sensitive data on the device. A security layer is implemented on the device, wherein the security layer manages encryption for data retrieved onto the device from a cloud-based environment. Encrypted content is then generated at the security layer before storing the encrypted content by receiving the content object from the cloud-based environment and encrypting the content object with an encryption key that is password protected. The encrypted content is stored within an encrypted filesystem for presenting the content on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Vasselli, Irving Yunchi Ruan
  • Patent number: 11232481
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing previews of files stored in an online content management system with collaboration environment and permitting a user to annotate the previews are disclosed. The system further tracks the frequency of access of content in previewed documents and provides a visual representation of the frequency with which sections in a document was viewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimber Lockhart, Jeffrey H. Seibert, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11226125
    Abstract: An energy optimization system for a load of perishable goods in temperature controlled storage, wherein a thermal profile of the load is developed, which is then used, in connection with temperature readings of the air and goods to simulate an expected temperature of the goods over an absolute or relative time duration at one or more set points. The simulation allows an optimal energy efficient set point to be determined, which may then be used to make the HVAC unit of the temperature controlled storage zone more energy efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Lettuce Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hogan, Darryl Kuhn
  • Patent number: 11223528
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing content in a cloud-based service platform. A method embodiment operates over storage content objects stored in storage devices in a cloud-based shared content management system. The method commences upon identifying a source object and identifying derivative objects that are generated based properties of the source object. After a time, candidate eviction objects are identified. One form of analysis is performed over source objects and another form of analysis is performed over derivative objects. Derivative objects are classified using the analysis, which classification is used to determine object management commands associated with the derivative object such as to remove the derivative object from one storage location (e.g., in a high-performance storage filer) and relocate it to another (e.g., lower cost) storage location. Based on the analysis, a derivative object might be deleted completely and then regenerated at a later time if/when needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Box. Inc.
    Inventors: Randall Roy Schulz, Mark Storer
  • Patent number: 11223687
    Abstract: A user interface is configured to present a stream of activities that arise from operation of two or more heterogeneous applications that access shared content objects of a content management system. A first application of a first type among the heterogeneous applications interoperates with a second application of a second type. Application activity records that correspond to interactions by the second application over the shared content objects are stored. Additional interactions that are raised by the first application and that pertain to a common content object are also stored. When a user requests access to a content object of the content management system, recent application activity records are selected. Some of the selected activity records are filtered out based on permissions attributes corresponding to the content object and/or based on permissions attributes corresponding to the requesting user. An application activity stream is generated based on the selected application activity records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Wayne Morkovine, Michelle Sangeun Oh, Faizan N. Buzdar, Derrik R. Lansing, Christopher Tucker, Victoria Wee, Prachi Subhash Jadhav, Dhiraj Sekhri, Pal Ramanathan
  • Patent number: 11210610
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing improved content previews of files stored in an online content management system with collaboration environment are disclosed. An optimized PDF rendering engine is used to reproduce the appearance of previewed PDF documents. The present disclosure includes a method of evaluating the available system tools for converting files from an existing format to a target format to determine the optimum tool(s) to use for the conversion process of a file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimber Lockhart, Jeffrey H. Seibert, Jr., Arnold Goldberg, Nicholas Silva, Brandon Savage, Aaron Levie, Sam Ghods, Florian Jourda, David T. Lee, Arshdeep Mand