Patents Assigned to DROPBOX, INC.
  • Patent number: 11928320
    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: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Devin Mancuso, Benjamin Joseph Calabrese, Austin Sung, Jason Stakelon, Bonita Leung
  • Patent number: 11921595
    Abstract: The present invention provides a System and method for multi-tiered data synchronization. Data is synchronized between a master synchronization server, one or more proxy synchronization servers, and client devices. Client devices establish synchronization sessions with either a proxy synchronization server or a master synchronization server, depending on which server provides the “best” available connection to that client device. Each proxy synchronization server synchronizes data with client devices that have established a synchronization session with such proxy synchronization server. The master synchronization server synchronizes data with client devices that have established a synchronization session with the master synchronization server. Each proxy synchronization server synchronizes data with the master synchronization server. Metadata associated with synchronized files is synchronized throughout the system in real-time. Files may be synchronized in real-time or of a delayed time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiren R Sekar, Jack B Strong
  • Patent number: 11921694
    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 intact. 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. Embodiments of the present invention further provide improved navigability by collapsing views of content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Jätzold, Daniel Wagner
  • Patent number: 11921812
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for providing a creativity web browser for content creation that integrates features of a content management system with internet browsing capabilities. Specifically, the disclosed systems provide a creativity web browser that includes specialized interface elements for restructuring web browsing to focus on content-related context, including a digital canvas, a content collection pane, an x-ray pane, and other elements. The disclosed systems can provide access to browsing across multiple systems or platforms, such as internet locations and/or locations within a content management system, within an integrated web browsing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Devin Mancuso, Christopher Meeks, Benjamin Joseph Calabrese
  • Patent number: 11914585
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of querying a hybrid event index of a user. The systems and methods can include receiving a search request pertaining to at least a first namespace of a plurality of namespaces and determining a first index server storing a first portion of the hybrid event index associated with the first namespace. The systems and methods can further include searching, the first portion of the hybrid event index stored at the first index server, determining one or more attributes from the search request, and determining a payload based on the search results of the first portion of the hybrid event index. Finally, the systems and methods can include applying one or more attributes to the payload and sending the filtered payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Agrawal, Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Adam Faulkner, Jitendra Vaidya
  • Patent number: 11914727
    Abstract: The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for a content management system that can be highly flexible to the needs of its subjects. The present technology permits any object to be shared by providing a robust and flexible access control list mechanism. The present technology utilizes a data structure that is highly efficient that both minimizes the amount of information that needs to be written into any database, but also allows for fast reads and writes of information from authoritative tables that are a source of truth for the content management system, while allowing for maintenance of indexes containing more refined data that allow for efficient retrieval of certain information that would normally need to be calculated when it is needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Passey, Braden Walker, Akos Albert
  • Publication number: 20240064182
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating and accessing content items are provided. In some examples, a method can include receiving a user selection of an interface element located in a persistent user interface of an operating system desktop of a client device associated with a user account, identifying, based on a query to a meeting service, a meeting associated with the user account, displaying, in response to the user selection of the interface element, a set of user options for the meeting, the set of user options comprising an option to access a content item for the meeting, receiving a user selection of the option to access the content item for the meeting, and accessing, in response to the user selection, the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Dropbox Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Kimball, Carola Pescio Canale, Angela Gong
  • Patent number: 11899623
    Abstract: A client application sends an application programming interface call to an interface of a content management system. The call specifies one or more content item search criteria. Sending the call causes the content management system to perform a lookup in a content item index to identify at least one content item that satisfies the one or more content item search criteria. Based on sending the call, the client application receives from the content management system a suggestion to attach the at least one content item to a text being displayed by at the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Lynch, Ilya Fushman
  • Patent number: 11900324
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing projects in a content management system. For example, the content management system can create a project folder (e.g., shared folder) for managing data associated with a project. The project folder can be shared with content management system users (e.g., project members) who are contributors to the project. The content management system can store project data (e.g., content items, communications, comments, tasks, etc.) related to the project in the project folder. When the project folder is selected by a user, the content management system can generate a project folder view that presents the project data associated with the project folder and/or project in a convenient and easy to access graphical user interface. The content management system can aggregate project data from various content items associated with the project and present the project data in a single graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Min Ming Lo, Matteus Pan, Linjie Ding, Lilian Weng
  • Publication number: 20240045882
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing content across discrete systems. A content management system can be implemented to manage content items and synchronize content items across devices. A content collaboration system can be implemented to generate documents and facilitate collaboration on documents. To take advantage of the content management system's functionality to manage and synchronize content items while also providing the collaboration functionality of the content collaboration system, the content management system can store and manage references to documents created in the content collaboration system. The document references can be managed by the content management system such that the document references appear to users as if the document references were the referenced document in the collaboration system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine Busch, Amandine Lee, Erik Hope, Stephen Poletto, Zrinka Gavran, Joshua Kaplan
  • Patent number: 11893701
    Abstract: A preferred method for dynamically displaying virtual and augmented reality scenes can include determining input parameters, calculating virtual photometric parameters, and rendering a VAR scene with a set of simulated photometric parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrence Edward McArdle, Benjamin Zeis Newhouse
  • Patent number: 11893075
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating contextual hubs for organizing and presenting web-accessible content from third-party sources. In particular, the systems described herein can organize and manage within a contextual hub. For instance, the disclosed systems may perform actions on tabs based on analyzing usage signals associated with the tabs. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can organize contextually related content within contextual hubs. The disclosed systems may also facilitate collaboration between users within a contextual hub by synchronizing interactions with content within a contextual hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Hudson Arnold, Thomas Kleinpeter, Terrence McArdle, Kristoffer Mendoza
  • Patent number: 11892978
    Abstract: A client application sends an application programming interface call to an interface of a content management system. The call specifies one or more content item search criteria. Sending the call causes the content management system to perform a lookup in a content item index to identify at least one content item that satisfies the one or more content item search criteria. Based on sending the call, the client application receives from the content management system a suggestion to attach the at least one content item to a text being displayed by at the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Lynch, Ilya Fushman
  • Patent number: 11893262
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating and maintaining an intelligent, web-based digital content clipboard for viewing and performing batch actions on copied content items. In particular, based on a client device request to copy a content item from a web-based folder, the disclosed systems can generate and add an item reference for the copied content item to a batch action clipboard. The disclosed systems can perform batch actions on multiple digital content items together with a single web-based batch action. The disclosed systems can also intelligently provide a clipboard element for display that is selectable to view item references representing content items copied to the batch action clipboard, along with a set of available batch actions for performing on one or more of the copied content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley Yeung
  • Publication number: 20240031316
    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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Huy Nguyen, Anvisha Pai, Brandon Souba, Nikrad Mahdi, Rajeev Nayak, Anand Prakash, Yang Zhang, Yuyang Guo, Erika DeBenedictis
  • Publication number: 20240028995
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing project tasks using content items. A user can create tasks within a content item. The tasks can be assigned to users and/or be assigned due dates. The content item can be shared with other users such that updates to the content item (e.g., updates to the tasks) can cause sending notifications to users associated with the content item. When a task in the content item is updated, all members of the project can be notified of the updated status of the task. A task list for a project can be created that aggregates tasks from multiple content items associated with the project. Tasks can be organized in the task list according to the content item the task was created in. Updates to tasks in the task list can cause corresponding updates to the tasks in the content items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben Newhouse, Kavitha Radhakrishnan, AJ Palkovic, David Stinnette, Jacob Hurwitz, Jennifer Lee, John R. Grace, JR., Susan Wang, Leona Dondi, Igor Kofman, Kenneth Choi, Tsung-Hsiang Chang
  • Patent number: 11880384
    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: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Kleinpeter, Tony Xu, Alex Sydell, Nils Bunger, Sam Jau, Aaron Staley, Sara Lin
  • Patent number: 11875028
    Abstract: A client device displays a content item in a window associated with a process on the device. A client application monitors the process for the content item and determines whether the content item is synchronized with a client device or content management system. When the content item is not synchronized, a synchronization interface is displayed to permit a user to request synchronizing the content item. When the user requests synchronization, the content item is moved to a shared folder synchronized with the content management system or client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Pedrick, Michael Wu, Anvisha Pai
  • Patent number: 11860823
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to a details pane that is displayed in coordination with a file explorer interface. The details pane can display details including activities, comments, and previews for content items displayed in the details pane. In some embodiments, the content items displayed in the file explorer interface can be stored in and accessed from different services, and the details in the details pane can also be populated from diverse sources. In some embodiments, edits or navigations can be performed within a preview of the content item. In some embodiments, comments can be shown along with previews that show the comment located within the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Valentine, Thomas Fisher, Nicholas Sundin, Parker Wilf, Robert Mason, Tomaz Nedeljko, Evan Tana
  • Patent number: 11860836
    Abstract: An object management system (OMS) receives a plurality of objects to be stored. The OMS identifies a subset of objects associated with a same time period and a same namespace from the plurality of objects and generates a batch object comprising the subset of objects. The OMS issues a write request to store the batch object in an object storage system (OSS) and stores, for each object in the subset of objects, a data structure comprising an identifier of the batch object and a position of the object within the batch object. Upon receiving a read request for an object, the OMS determines, based on the data structure, whether the object is stored in the OSS and issues a read request to the OSS based on the identifier of the batch object and the position of the object within the batch, if the objects is stored in the OSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Anup Chenthamarakshan, Adam Faulkner, Ping Hu, Alexander Sosa