Patents Assigned to DROPBOX, INC.
  • Publication number: 20230419416
    Abstract: An online content management service can collect and store receipts for a user from a variety of sources, including images captured by the user, messages received for the user at a messaging service or message management service, and/or receipts directly uploaded to the online content management service by a merchant. In the case of receipts provided as messages, a user can interact with a message management service to identify messages as receipts, and the message management service can upload such messages to the online content management service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Bernard, Eric Feng, Marty Hu, Veronica Zheng
  • Patent number: 11855769
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Kimball, Carola Pescio Canale, Angela Gong
  • Patent number: 11853380
    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: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Hudson Arnold, Thomas Kleinpeter, Terrence McArdle, Kristoffer Mendoza
  • Patent number: 11854149
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for capturing and displaying partial motion in VAR scenes. VAR scenes can include a plurality of images combined and oriented over any suitable geometry. Although VAR scenes may provide an immersive view of a static scene, current systems do not generally support VAR scenes that include dynamic content (e.g., content that varies over time). Embodiments of the present invention can capture, generate, and/or share VAR scenes. This immersive, yet static, view of the VAR scene lacks dynamic content (e.g., content which varies over time). Embodiments of the present invention can efficiently add dynamic content to the VAR scene, allowing VAR scenes including dynamic content to be uploaded, shared, or otherwise transmitted without prohibitive resource requirements. Dynamic content can be captured by device and combined with a preexisting or simultaneously captured VAR scene, and the dynamic content may be played back upon selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Zeis Newhouse, Terrence Edward McArdle
  • Patent number: 11853968
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating and providing team-specific collections of collaborative content items. For example, the disclosed systems can determine relationships between teams of user accounts and various collaborative content items. Based on the determined relationships, the disclosed systems can identify which collaborative content items are germane to which teams and can provide the collaborative content items to user accounts accordingly. As part of determining relationships between collaborative content items and user accounts (or teams of user accounts), the disclosed systems can determine various information pertaining to the collaborative content items, including access patterns, sharing patterns, activity information, and geographic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Jongmin Baek, Sarah Andrabi, Kristian Concepcion
  • Patent number: 11853817
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that can leverage a natural language model to determine a most probable candidate sequence of tokens and thereby generate a predicted user activity. In particular, the disclosed systems can tokenize activity event vectors to generate a series of sequential tokens that correspond to recent user activity of one or more user accounts. In addition, the disclosed systems can, for each candidate (e.g., hypothetical) user activity, augment the series of sequential tokens to include a corresponding token. Based on respective probability scores for each of the augmented series of sequential tokens, the disclosed systems can identify as the predicted user activity, a candidate user activity corresponding to one of the augmented series of sequential tokens associated with a highest probability score. Based on the predicted user activity, the disclosed systems can surface one or more suggestions to a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ranjitha Gurunath Kulkarni, Xingyu Xiang, Jongmin Baek, Ermo Wei
  • Publication number: 20230410053
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for implementing discoverable collaboration teams. In some embodiments, a user of a content management system can create a team account within the content management system. The team account can be associated with a domain of the user (now administrator) of the team account. The domain can be an email domain, company name, or some other identifier or characteristic of the user that might be shared with other users. The administrator can specify discoverability settings for the team that allow other content management system users associated with the domain to automatically discover and/or join the team account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Pranav Piyush, Zach Johnston, Alexander Shtuchkin, Iolanthe Chronis
  • Patent number: 11848994
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a client application at a client device can receive, from a browser application at the client device, a first message including a unique identifier associated with a session of the browser application at a website associated with a content management system. The client application can extract the unique identifier from the first message, and establish a connection between the client application and the content management system by sending, from the client application to the content management system, a second message including the unique identifier. The client application can then receive, from the content management system through the connection, a third message relayed by the content management system from the website, where the third message is associated with the unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Bortz, Sang Tian, Joshua Kaplan, Devdatta Akhawe
  • Patent number: 11849004
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Cue, George Milton Underwood, IV, Tim Van Damme
  • Patent number: 11836207
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to remotely initiating a capture request. According to at least one example, the present technology includes sending the request for a media capture to a recipient device of a recipient user. The request for the media capture can be configured by the requesting user so that options are chosen for the recipient. The recipient user merely needs to click on a link to cause a web browser to initiate the screen capture. In some cases, the recipient user may need to accept some prompts from their computing device to give the browser permission to perform the capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Youssef Es-skouri, Noga Raviv
  • Patent number: 11836151
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a synchronization system can synchronize symbolic links across multiple devices. For example, a content management system can receive, from a client device, one or more synchronization operations for synchronizing content items between the content management system and the client device. The content items can be content items associated with a user account registered at the content management system. The content management system can determine that the one or more synchronization operations include an operation for adding a content item to the user account, and that the content item is a symbolic link that includes a path to a target content item. The content management system can then synchronize the content item as a symbolic link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Elmer Charles Jubb, IV
  • Patent number: 11822513
    Abstract: A system having a spaces service configured to host a first space that collects first data pertaining to a first topic and further configured to host a second space that collects second data pertaining to a second topic. The first data may include a link to a content item. The second data may include a second link to the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Tristan Rice, Shiu Ling Kwok, Jason Perez, Joseph Grillo, Boyang Niu
  • Patent number: 11816615
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: 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: 11816128
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine Busch, Amandine Lee, Erik Hope, Stephen Poletto, Zrinka Gavran, Joshua Kaplan
  • Publication number: 20230359640
    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: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Beausoleil, Matteus Pan, Jean-Denis Greze, Anthony DeVincenzi, Maxwell Johnson, Jack Dubie, Colin Dunn
  • Publication number: 20230362165
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for identifying accounts having shared credentials. In some implementations, a content management system can collect user login context data when a user logs in to or accesses a user account of the content management system. For example, the content management system can collect client device data, client application data, internet protocol (IP) address data, and/or other data from the user's device when the user logs in to the user account. The content management system can analyze the login context data to determine patterns that indicate that the user account login credentials are being shared among multiple users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Kapil Yedidi, Anton Mityagin, Sean Byrne, Andrew Scheff
  • Patent number: 11809381
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of accessing content items stored at a content management system by a mobile device, when the mobile device is not communicatively coupled to the content management system. The content management system can receive an indication to mark a content item (e.g., folder and the content items associated with the folder) as available to a mobile device when the mobile device is offline. The content management system can mark the content item, and any content items associated with the content item, for offline access by the mobile device and determine a synchronization schedule for the content item(s). The content management system can then initially send to the mobile device, the marked content item(s) in accordance with the synchronization schedule. While offline, the mobile device can make changes to the marked content items. The changes can be synchronized between the mobile device and content management system when the mobile device is online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Aakash Kambuj, Vinod Valloppillil, Yufei Guo, Rodrigo Gomez Avila, Calvin Low, William R. Fraser, David Zhang
  • Patent number: 11809450
    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: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ermo Wei, Jialiang Li, Kaiyue Sun, Li Chen Koh, Mingye Xia, Yu Zhang, Yuyang Guo
  • Patent number: 11803652
    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: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Passey, Braden Walker, Akos Albert
  • Patent number: 11799810
    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: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Huy Nguyen, Anvisha Pai, Brandon Souba, Nikrad Mahdi, Rajeev Nayak, Anand Prakash, Yang Zhang, Yuyang Guo, Erika DeBenedictis