Patents by Inventor Dropbox, Inc.

Dropbox, Inc. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140331126
    Abstract: A notes system is presented with a content management system. The notes system manages creation and distribution of edits to notes to users sharing the notes. The notes are stored as a series of edits at the notes system. When an edit to a note is received, the edit is propagated to users subscribed to a note by a backend server responsible for managing the note. The shared users are notified through application servers associated with each shared user. The notes server includes various indices for searching the notes and allows notes to be searched quickly to organize viewing by a user of notes and identification of relevant material in the notes. The stored edits are used to display edits to a note to a user by replaying the accessed note to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Dropbox, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20140317031
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the disclosed technology can obtain information about associations between users (e.g., user accounts) of a content management system and applications compatible with the content management system. Various embodiments can also obtain information about a plurality of attributes associated with usage of the content management system by the users (e.g., user accounts). In some embodiments, the attributes can include a device property, a usage pattern, an account property, a content item property, a profile property, a preference property, or a domain property. Moreover, data about social connections of the users (e.g., user accounts) can also be obtained. Based, at least in part, on at least one of the information about the associations, the information about the plurality of attributes, or the data about the social connections, one or more applications can be recommended to a selected user (e.g., a selected user account).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Dropbox, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20140006168
    Abstract: Offers are targeted to consumers by comparing offer profiles and consumer profiles. Offer profiles are created by analyzing the cumulative content of communications associated with consumers who respond to the offers. Consumer profiles are created by analyzing the cumulative content of communications associated with a user of an electronic communications system. An offer may be selected to be sent to a user based on the relative similarity between the user's consumer profile and the offer profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Dropbox, Inc.