Patents Assigned to DROPBOX, INC.
  • Patent number: 11356396
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for combining content management system functionality with an email or messaging server. A system can associate an email with a content item, through express attachment, direct reference such as a link, indirect reference, or otherwise. The system can store the associated content item within content item storage or identify a stored content item that is identical to the content item that is associated with the email. The system can then enhance email service functionality with the stored content item. For example, the system can present the stored content item or information about the stored content item along with the email. The system can also automatically grant permissions to the stored content item with participants of the email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Samir Goel, Abhishek Agrawal, Devdatta Akhawe, Renuka Apte, Nikhil Bhargava, Pranav Piyush, Samir Naik, Nicholas Sundin
  • Patent number: 11347762
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for shared folder backed integrated workspaces. In some implementations, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that integrates communications and content management into a single user interface. The user interface can include mechanisms that allow a user to provide input to generate a new workspace. The user interface can provide a mechanism to allow a user to view conversations related to the workspace and/or content items associated with the workspace. The user interface can present representations of content items associated with the workspace and allow the user to provide input to generate, view, edit, and share content items associated with the workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Beausoleil, Matteus Pan, Jean-Denis Greze, Anthony DeVincenzi
  • Publication number: 20220164743
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing projects in a content management system. In some embodiments, a content management system can generate a graphical user interface that presents a centralized view of a project. For example, the project can include project members, content items, tasks assigned to project members, communications between project members and activity history for the project. The graphical user interface can present this project data (e.g., project members, content items, tasks, communications, activity, etc.) so that a project member can easily and quickly view multiple aspects of the project.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: John Arnott, Jacob Hurwitz, Matthew Beaty, Conor Woods, Fanny Luor, Steph Wang, Neil Sethi, Matthis Perrin, Chris Baty, Natalie Klotz, Henry Liu, Nebyat Teklu
  • Patent number: 11343514
    Abstract: Techniques for lossless compression of a digital image using prior image context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Horn, Ken Elkabany, Keith Winstein
  • Patent number: 11340760
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating a customized organizational structure prior to uploading content items to a remote storage. For example, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed system identifies a set of content items to host on a remote storage and generates a visual representation of an organizational structure to be used for the content items at the remote storage. The system detects interactions modifying the organizational structure and provides the customized organizational structure to the remote storage prior to transmitting the content items. The system then transmits the set of content items to the remote storage in response to a transmission initiation event, and the remote storage stores the content items according to the customized organizational structure. In one or more embodiments, the system also allows the organizational structure and uploading of content items to be performed using different applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Hudson Arnold, Kristoffer Mendoza, Kristof Didrickson, Kyle Shay
  • Patent number: 11341114
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for managing and sharing picture files. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method comprises providing a server platform and providing a datastore on the server platform for maintaining full resolution copies of the files shared between a plurality of sharing clients. A synchronization engine is provided on the server platform and is configured to send real-time updates to a plurality of sharing clients when at least one of the sharing clients updates or changes one of said files. A web interface may also be provided that allows a user to access files in the datastore through the use of a web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Benjamin Strong, Gibu Thomas
  • Patent number: 11334970
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of an image enhancement system enable a computing device to generate an enhanced digital image. In particular, a computing device can enhance a digital image including, for example, a photograph of a whiteboard, document, chalkboard, or other object having a uniform background. The computing device can determine modifications to apply to the digital image by minimizing an energy heuristic that both causes pixels of the digital image to change to a uniform color (e.g., white) and preserves gradients from the digital image. The computing device can further generate an enhanced digital image by applying the determined modifications to the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Jongmin Baek
  • Patent number: 11334555
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for managing and sharing picture files. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method comprises providing a server platform and providing a datastore on the server platform for maintaining full resolution copies of the files shared between a plurality of sharing clients. A synchronization engine is provided on the server platform and is configured to send real-time updates to a plurality of sharing clients when at least one of the sharing clients updates or changes one of said files. A web interface may also be provided that allows a user to access files in the datastore through the use of a web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Benjamin Strong, Gibu Thomas
  • Patent number: 11334596
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of a synchronization system facilitate selectivity synchronizing digital content items from a collection of digital content items to a local storage of a client device. In particular, one or more embodiments described herein collect and analyze recall data for users of a digital content management system with respect to digital content items to determine synchronization scores for the digital content items. One or more embodiments described herein further include selectively identifying a subset of the digital content items based on the synchronization scores to recommend for synchronization to a local storage of a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ermo Wei, Jialiang Li, Kaiyue Sun, Li Chen Koh, Mingye Xia, Yu Zhang, Yuyang Guo
  • Patent number: 11321275
    Abstract: Technologies for migrating content items from a storage network to an online content management system are provided. In some examples, a method can include receiving a request to migrate a share on a server at a source environment to a content management system that is separate from the source environment, the share having a structure representing a hierarchy of each content item within the share; identifying accounts at the source environment having access permissions configured at the source environment for the share on the server; mapping the accounts at the source environment to corresponding accounts at the content management system; creating a copy of the share at the content management system, the copy of the share being created in association with the corresponding accounts on the content management system; and migrating, to the content management system, the access permissions configured at the source environment for the share on the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Gal Bar-Nissan, Noy Berger, Sharon Nadler, Itzhak Kasovitch, Doron Jacoby, Meital Gelbort, Paulo Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11314774
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to an organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Kleinpeter, Akos Albert, Helen Lu, Aaron Staley
  • Publication number: 20220121806
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing content item collections. For example, in embodiment, a client device may receive first user input selecting a content item collection. The client device may generate a graphical user interface for presenting the content item collection. The content item collection may include one or more tiles. Each tile may correspond to a content item embedded into the content item collection and stored by a content management system. The client device may present the content item collection including the one or more tiles. The client device may present, within each of the one or more tiles, an image representing the corresponding content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Sunny Rochiramani, Vinod Valloppillil, Jacob Hurwitz, Katherine R. Rudolph, Francesco Paduano, Eric Sprauve, Igor Kofman, Aaron Staley
  • Patent number: 11308118
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to a organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Kleinpeter, Conor Woods, Sergei Vorobev, Quazie Kwaselow, Marcio von Muhlen, Nils Bunger
  • Patent number: 11308039
    Abstract: The present technology can move operating system folders into a sync folder of a cross platform content management system, and redirect the operating system to look for the OS folders in the sync folder. The present technology also provides an invariant checker to make sure that another application has not moved the OS folders after they have been placed in the sync folder, and provides solutions when the OS folders are moved out of the sync folder of the content management system. Additionally, when OS folders for multiple client devices are in the sync folder on the content management system, the present technology can provide a mechanism to make the content items in an OS folder on a first client device also sync into an OS folder on second client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Pranav Vishnu Ramabhadran, Maxime Larabie-Belanger, Nipunn Koorapati, Adam Arbree, Rishabh Jain, Haynes George
  • Patent number: 11308032
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates searching an online content management system for content items associated with a user. During operation, the system receives a call from a client application at a search interface in the online content management system, wherein the client application is operating on behalf of the user. In response to the call, the system performs a lookup in a per-user index within the online content management system, wherein the per-user index facilitates looking up information about content items associated with the user in the online content management system. The system then returns the information obtained during the lookup to the client application. The client application can then use the retrieved information to facilitate an interaction between the client application and the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Lynch, Ilya Fushman
  • Patent number: 11307754
    Abstract: The present technology provide a mechanism for displaying and initiating actions and workflows for objects with a single drag-and-drop operation in association with a content management system. Drag operations may be monitored to trigger monitoring of a pointer performing the drag operation to detect whether the pointer is within a threshold distance from a chosen aspect, such as a system tray icon, and/or an area of a temporary invisible window. Upon detection, the drag operation of the objects may seamlessly trigger a presentation of a menu window. The menu window may display one or more icons representing different actions and workflows for which the object may be dropped, via a drop operation, upon to indicate a selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Spencer Villars
  • Publication number: 20220100494
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for providing access to a hybrid web application offline. In some implementations, a computing device can be configured with a hybrid application that includes a native layer and a web view. The native layer can provide access to native features of the computing device while the web view can provide web client features, such as graphical user interfaces and server communication functionality. When the computing device is offline and the hybrid application is invoked, the native layer can load from local storage a resource bundle including the web code needed to present the web view graphical user interface, and/or facilitate communication with the web server. Similarly, when the computing device is offline, the hybrid application can load previously stored content items into the web view from local storage through the native layer so that the user can work with the content items offline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Lopyrev, Prabhdeep Gill, Ashok Raju, Ian Mendiola
  • Patent number: 11290402
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing email attachments in an online content management system. In some implementations, a messaging client can receive input attaching a content item to an electronic message in a message thread. In response to the input, the messaging client can store the content item in a file system managed by an online content management system, generate a link to the content item, and insert the link in the electronic message. The content item can be shared with the recipients of the electronic message such that the content item can be synchronized across recipient devices by the online content management system. The messaging client on each recipient device and/or the sender's device can present representations of the attachments associated with the message thread in a centralized location on a GUI of the messaging client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Huy Nguyen, Anvisha Pai, Brandon Souba, Nikrad Mahdi, Rajeev Nayak, Anand Prakash, Yang Zhang, Yuyang Guo, Erika DeBenedictis
  • Patent number: 11290531
    Abstract: The present technology addresses a scenario when a user attempts to create a cloud content item using a file system interface on a client device. The present technology can immediately create a content item that is representative of a cloud content item once the user requests a cloud content item to be created. The content item that is representative of the cloud content item can be created even before the cloud content item itself is created. After the cloud content item is created, the present technology provides a mechanism to relate the content item that this representative of the cloud content item with the actual cloud content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Cassandra Beckley, Joshua Kaplan
  • Patent number: 11282008
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing projects in a content management system. In some embodiments, a content management system can generate a graphical user interface that presents a centralized view of a project. For example, the project can include project members, content items, tasks assigned to project members, communications between project members and activity history for the project. The graphical user interface can present this project data (e.g., project members, content items, tasks, communications, activity, etc.) so that a project member can easily and quickly view multiple aspects of the project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: John Arnott, Jacob Hurwitz, Matthew Beaty, Conor Woods, Fanny Luor, Steph Wang, Neil Sethi, Matthis Perrin, Chris Baty, Natalie Klotz, Henry Liu, Nebyat Teklu