Patents Assigned to DROPBOX, INC.
  • Patent number: 11979296
    Abstract: In a synchronization system, the present invention provides an improved user interface through which a user can view and manage settings associated with the user's account in the synchronization system. In the preferred embodiment, a column is displayed for each electronic device associated with the user's account in the synchronization system. In each column is a visual representation of items (e.g., folders) that are (1) backed up, remotely accessible and/or synchronized in the synchronization system and (2) located on the electronic device associated with such column. For each item that is synchronized across multiple devices, all the visual representations of such item in the columns are aligned across a single row in the interface. In the preferred embodiment, there is an arrow, or other visual indicator, between the visual representations of such items to indicate that the items are synchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Domingo A Mihovilovic
  • Patent number: 11971860
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for providing an embedded web view of a folder in a content management system on a web page. For example, a user can request from a content management system code for embedding a web view of a content item or group of content items (e.g., folder) into a web page. After the code is embedded into the webpage, the web page can present a web view of the content item or group of content items that is dynamically updated when the content item or group of content items is updated. Thus, the user is relieved of the burden of updating the web page with new links to reflect changes in content items stored in the online content management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Tu, Aisha Ferrazares, Jennifer Lee, Sang Tian
  • Patent number: 11966462
    Abstract: A computing system identifies a third-party dependency to be added to a codebase. The third-party dependency is hosted on a third-party server. The computing system downloads the third-party dependency within a secure runtime environment. The computing system generates a signature value for the third-party dependency. The computing system compares the signature value to a database of signature values of approved third-party dependencies. Upon determining that the signature value does not correspond to any signature values of the approved third-party dependencies, the computing system executes the third-party dependency within the secure runtime environment. The computing system monitors the execution of the third-party dependency within the secure runtime environment to identify suspicious activity. Upon determining that the third-party dependency is not exhibiting suspicious activity, the computing system adds the signature value to the database of signature values of approved third-party dependencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Aleksandr Krasnov
  • Patent number: 11960529
    Abstract: The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for a service that can ingest a social network export and restore the integrity of threads within the social network export. The present technology can unite images in the social network export with the caption from the initial post, and with any comments within the thread. Likewise, images in the social network export can be enhanced to include metadata that reflects when the image was posted and any other contextual information that the social network provides in export file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Kyle Shay
  • Patent number: 11960525
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for automatically formatting content items for presentation. For example, in response to receiving an invocation of a presentation mode for a content item, a computing device can generate a tree structure representing the structure of the content item. The computing device can generate a presentation version of the content item based on a presentation template that defines the presentation formatting for the content item. The computing device can traverse the tree and determine a portion of the presentation version of the content item to present based on the amount of content that can fit within a display size of a display device. In some implementations, the computing device can determine portions of content to suppress and/or highlight based on various characteristics, metadata, comments, links, etc., corresponding to the portions of content in the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC
    Inventors: Justin Hileman, Scott Zhuge, Kevin Ji
  • Patent number: 11961047
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for collecting, organizing, and managing third-party content from multiple sources associated with a user account to present as synthesized tasks in a consolidated graphical user interface and minimize the distraction provided by multiple interfaces. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems analyze content from various web-based data sources, collect relevant content, create synthesized tasks associated with the relevant content, and present the relevant content to the user grouped into synthesized tasks in a single graphical user interface. Additionally, the disclosed systems can prioritize the generated synthesized tasks within the graphical user interface and provide productivity metrics based on the degree to which an associated user interacts with the synthesized tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Grillo, Angelique Rachel Little, Antonia-Celestina Divan, Elijah Clay Johnson, Jacqueline Alexis Deprey, Robert B. Hanigan, Swapnil Ahuja
  • Patent number: 11960911
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating content clusters from topic data and focus data, generating content collections from content clusters, storing and restoring desktop scene layouts, and storing and arranging video call scenes. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate content clusters based on topic data and focus data associated with content items within a content management system and/or accessed via the internet. The disclosed systems can also generate content collections for a user account of the content management system from the content clusters. In some embodiments, the content scene system can further store and restore desktop scene layouts for arranging application windows presenting content items. Further, the disclosed systems can store and arrange particular desktop scene layouts for video call scenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Devin Mancuso, Benjamin Joseph Calabrese, Austin Sung, Jason Stakelon, Bonita Leung
  • Patent number: 11954313
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that provide users with efficient and effective user experiences when browsing, selecting, or inspecting content items. More specifically, systems and methods described herein provide users the ability to easily and effectively select multiple content items via a single touch gesture (e.g., swipe gesture). Additionally, systems and methods disclosed herein can allow users to select various content items in a selection interface, preview a content item, and return to the selection interface with the previous selections remaining in tact. Still further, systems and methods described herein allow users to transition between a content graphical user interface and a selection interface based on touch gestures with content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Senderek, Daniel Tobias Wagner, Leonard Fink
  • Patent number: 11948473
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for distributing, collecting and monitoring assignments by a content management system. The method includes receiving a request for a file request from a teacher to distribute an assignment to one or more students. In response to receiving the request, the teacher is prompted for information associated with the assignment. The information can include a name for the assignment, an assignment file and a collection identifier. In response to receiving the information, one or more metadata tags are generated based on the received information. The file request is distributed along with the one or more metadata tags to the one or more student.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly Bonney-Ache, Ritu Moondra, Calvin Low, Kristen Witte, David Fish, Ian Macartney, Ben Stern
  • Patent number: 11948104
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for identifying and recommending team members for target users from a content management system utilizing a machine learning approach. In particular, the disclosed systems can generate a set of candidate team members from among users of the content management system based on various factors such as access to a common digital content item. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems further determine recommended team members from among the set of candidate team members. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a machine learning approach to generate or predict recommended team members based on particular features extracted or determined for, or with respect to, the various candidate team members. In certain implementations, the disclosed systems further provide a recommended-team-member notification to notify a target user of a recommended team member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Jiarui Ding
  • Patent number: 11947601
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating and suggesting content collections for user accounts of a content management system using combinations of content-based features such as textual signals and visual signals. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems select a seed content item from among a plurality of content items associated with a user account within a content management system. From the seed content item, the disclosed systems can determine one or more germane topics and can cluster additional content items in relation to the germane topic(s). In addition, the disclosed systems can select one or more content items from a content cluster to provide as a suggested content collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Jongmin Baek, Jiarui Ding
  • Patent number: 11947549
    Abstract: A computing system generates a default view of content items associated with a user account. The default view is representative of an underlying hierarchical structure of the content items associated with the user account. The computing system receives a request to transition from the default view to a modified view of the content items. The computing system ranks the content items based on a predicted likelihood of the user interacting with the particular content item. The computing system identifies the subset of content items for the modified view based on the ranking. The computing system generates the modified view based on the identified subset of the content items. The modified view maintains the underlying hierarchical structure of the content items associated with the user account. The computing system provides the modified view to the user associated with the user account for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas Bern
  • Patent number: 11940877
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to restoring a directory to a state prior to a past synchronization event. A content management system can present an interface including history of synchronization events for a directory, and a user can select to restore a directory to a state prior to any one of the past synchronization events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Pranav Vishnu Ramabhadran, Ken Park, Wes O'Haire, Raveesh Nayar, Helen Lu, Grant Mathews, Sam Keller, Niklas Nordlof, Marian Oman, Julia Weingardt
  • Patent number: 11941344
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to displaying a version of a content item and an indication of differences between that version and another version of the content item. For example, a content management system can iterate through portions of a first version of a content item and attempt to match those portions with portions of a second version of the content item. The content management system can analyze these matches to determine differences between the respective portions and to classify and categorize the differences (e.g., do they represent a significant change or do they change the meaning of the content item). A client device can then represent a clean version of the content item in a first application and the differences and characteristics in a second application in coordination with the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Baron, Zach Johnston, Anat Danziger, Mark Kaplan, Omer Tamir, Julia Pfeiffenberger, Meir Morgenstern, Adam Fyne
  • Patent number: 11941241
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content navigation system that allows a user to search, browse, and otherwise experience a collection of digital content items. For example, the content navigation system can provide a graphical user interface including a scroll element. One or more embodiments of the scroll element can include various navigational functions that provide a user-friendly interface for browsing and experiencing a collection of digital content items. Furthermore, the content navigation system can provide methods and systems for a user to easily configure the way in which the digital content items are organized within the user interface, thereby customizing the user's browsing experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Yi Wei, Joshua Puckett, Brian Smith, Andrew Scheff, Rajeev Nayak
  • Patent number: 11943264
    Abstract: Described embodiments enable device users sharing content items via a content management system to view and modify content items within native applications on their client devices. In various embodiments, a client application detects a save operation on a content item and prompts a user to provide a comment based on changes to the content item. User comments and metadata are provided to a content management system to create a historical log that provides a comprehensive summary of user interactions with a content item, including comments regarding content item changes, version information, and timestamps. The content management system provides the comments and other log contents to client applications associated with other users sharing the content item. The client applications use the comments and log information to provide notifications to the users regarding content item changes and comments by sharing users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Anvisha Hrishikesh Pai, Michael Wu
  • Patent number: 11943320
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for managing content items having multiple resolutions may be provided. In some embodiments, a user device may send a request to access one or more images from a content management system. The one or more images may be categorized on the user device by an expected use that determines that the one or more images be in a first version. A second version of the one or more images may be received while a background download of the first version of the one or more images may be performed. In some embodiments, the first version may correspond to a high-resolution image whereas the second version may correspond to a lower resolution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Grue, Andrew Haven, Andrew Scheff
  • Patent number: 11934357
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for a dropsite. In some embodiments, information is received on a creation location and a date and time of creation of a content item, and a determination is made if (i) the date and time of creation is within a predefined span of time, and (ii) the creation location is within a predefined geographical area to permit association of the content item with a shared folder whose inclusion criteria match said date and time and geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Tushar Jain, Yi Wei, Michael Dwan
  • Patent number: 11935007
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating, providing, and editing collaborative content items on client devices. For example, the disclosed systems provide a collaborative content item that includes a text display state and a render display state. A client device can provide for the collaborative content item to receive source text in the text display state. Then, based on the source text, the client device can provide for display of the collaborative content item in the render display state that generates a graphical representation for the collaborative content item based on rendering the source text. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods allow two or more client devices to simultaneously modify the source text associated with the collaborative content item, and in turn, modify the graphical representation of the collaborative content item based on the modified source text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Schamp, Raven Black, Justin Hileman
  • Publication number: 20240089338
    Abstract: Generation of filtering rules for incoming messages can be activated by a user through a gesture-based input. When the user activates filtering rule generation, the message management service can cause a user device to display a prompt requesting additional data to be used to generate the filtering rule. The gesture can be a swipe and hold gesture, where the swipe is associated with an action (archiving, deleting, deferring, or adding the message to a list), and the swipe and hold action can activate filtering rule generation associated with the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Cue, George Milton Underwood, IV, Tim Van Damme