Patents Assigned to DROPBOX, INC.
  • Patent number: 12008065
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that utilize machine learning models to generate identifier embeddings from digital content identifiers and then leverage these identifier embeddings to determine digital connections between digital content items. In particular, the disclosed systems can utilize an embedding machine-learning model that comprises a character-level embedding machine-learning model and a word-level embedding machine-learning model. For example, the disclosed systems can combine a character embedding from the character-level embedding machine-learning model and a token embedding from the word-level embedding machine-learning model. The disclosed systems can determine digital connections between the plurality of digital content items by processing these identifier embeddings for a plurality of digital content items utilizing a content management model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Jongmin Baek, Jiarui Ding, Ermo Wei, Scott McCrae
  • Patent number: 12001574
    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: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Passey, Braden Walker, Akos Albert
  • Patent number: 11995521
    Abstract: Computer-implemented techniques encompass using distinct machine learning sub-models to score respective types of candidate content for the purpose of providing personalized content suggestions to end-users of a content management system. The relevancy scores generated by the distinct sub-models are mapped to expected end-user interaction scores of the candidate content scored. Content suggestions are provided at end-users' computing devices where the suggested content is selected from the candidate content based on the expected end-user interaction scores of the candidate content. For each distinct sub-model, a normalizing mapping function is solved using an optimizer that maps the relevancy scores generated by the sub-model for the candidate content to expected end-user interaction scores for the candidate content. The expected end-user interaction scores are comparable across the distinct sub-models and can be used to rank content suggestions across the distinct sub-models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Jongmin Baek
  • Patent number: 11991129
    Abstract: A message can be selectively provided to users of an online content management service based at least in part on a user relationship between the users and a shared content item. Users having the user relationship associated with the message can be shown the message, where users without the user relationship are not shown the message. For example, a message can be configured to be shown upon the first time a content item is opened by a user, but not on subsequent openings of the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Ramsey Homsany
  • Patent number: 11989694
    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: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Min Ming Lo, Matteus Pan, Linjie Ding, Lilian Weng
  • Patent number: 11985192
    Abstract: The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for synchronizing a content library between a content management system and client devices. Each content item in a user's content library is stored on the content management system and a record of each change to the content library is recorded in a content journal. A client device transmits a synchronization request that a portion of the content journal representing unsynchronized changes be processed to update the content library on the client device. The synchronization request includes a content library identifier and a content journal number identifying the content entry in the content journal last processed by the client device. Synchronization commands are sent based on the content entries not processed by the client device. Updated synchronization data representing the processed content entries is sent to the client device after synchronization is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Drew Houston
  • Publication number: 20240153331
    Abstract: A deployable restroom may include individually accessible—and access controlled—restroom units. That is, only authorized users identified using electronic readers and/or face detection cameras may be allowed to access the restroom units. For each access, the identification of the user and the corresponding time stamps may be recorded such that there is an accurate access log of who accessed a restroom unit and when—thereby keeping all users identifiable and accountable. One or more security perimeter cameras may continuously monitor the surroundings to complement or augment the access log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: DropBox, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Rhett SLAGEL
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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