Patents by Inventor David MacKenzie

David MacKenzie 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: 20250156563
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for a content management system. Embodiments operate within or in conjunction with such a content management system. The content management system stores content objects for access by various collaborators, including extra-system collaborators. A user of the content management system configures extra-enterprise shared link URLs that permit the extra-system collaborators to access shared content objects over an Internet connection. A shared link event graph data structure is formed based on access requests over the extra-enterprise shared link URLs. An interactive user interface module is generated by processing a shared link report query over the shared link event graph data structure to select a subject set of the extra-enterprise shared link URLs, and to generate a data set of the interactive user interface module based at least in part on results from the query. A user interacts with the interactive user interface module to generate insights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Swati GARG, Irina ISSAYEVA, Prachi SNEHAL, Shilpa VARMA, James LAVINE, David MACKENZIE
  • Patent number: 12197604
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for a content management system. Embodiments operate within or in conjunction with such a content management system. The content management system stores content objects for access by various collaborators, including extra-system collaborators. A user of the content management system configures extra-enterprise shared link URLs that permit the extra-system collaborators to access shared content objects over an Internet connection. A shared link event graph data structure is formed based on access requests over the extra-enterprise shared link URLs. An interactive user interface module is generated by processing a shared link report query over the shared link event graph data structure to select a subject set of the extra-enterprise shared link URLs, and to generate a data set of the interactive user interface module based at least in part on results from the query. A user interacts with the interactive user interface module to generate insights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Swati Garg, Irina Issayeva, Prachi Snehal, Shilpa Varma, James Lavine, David MacKenzie
  • Patent number: 12086108
    Abstract: Techniques for monitoring local and/or remote file systems by a synchronization component (e.g., client/server) of a cloud-based platform are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of building synchronization events by a synchronization component (e.g., a synchronization server/client) includes obtaining a set of items that have been changed and their new states and retrieving last known states of the set of items that are stored in a reference snapshot inside a filesystem scanner. The method further includes generating differences between the new states and the last known states of the set of items as item changes and utilizing information provided by the item changes to translate the item changes into synchronization events for execution on the opposing file system. A method of handling failed synchronization events by a synchronization component of the cloud-based platform by collapsing a subsequent event with the failed synchronization event is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Campbell Smith, David Mackenzie, Yiming Lu, Kunal Parmar, Peter Potrebic
  • Publication number: 20230237023
    Abstract: Techniques for monitoring local and/or remote file systems by a synchronization component (e.g., client/server) of a cloud-based platform are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of building synchronization events by a synchronization component (e.g., a synchronization server/client) includes obtaining a set of items that have been changed and their new states and retrieving last known states of the set of items that are stored in a reference snapshot inside a filesystem scanner. The method further includes generating differences between the new states and the last known states of the set of items as item changes and utilizing information provided by the item changes to translate the item changes into synchronization events for execution on the opposing file system. A method of handling failed synchronization events by a synchronization component of the cloud-based platform by collapsing a subsequent event with the failed synchronization event is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Campbell Smith, David Mackenzie, Yiming Lu, Kunal Parmar, Peter Potrebic
  • Publication number: 20230205902
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for a content management system. Embodiments operate within or in conjunction with such a content management system. The content management system stores content objects for access by various collaborators, including extra-system collaborators. A user of the content management system configures extra-enterprise shared link URLs that permit the extra-system collaborators to access shared content objects over an Internet connection. A shared link event graph data structure is formed based on access requests over the extra-enterprise shared link URLs. An interactive user interface module is generated by processing a shared link report query over the shared link event graph data structure to select a subject set of the extra-enterprise shared link URLs, and to generate a data set of the interactive user interface module based at least in part on results from the query. A user interacts with the interactive user interface module to generate insights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Swati GARG, Irina ISSAYEVA, Prachi SNEHAL, Shilpa VARMA, James LAVINE, David MACKENZIE
  • Patent number: 11550757
    Abstract: Techniques for monitoring local and/or remote file systems by a synchronization component (e.g., client/server) of a cloud-based platform are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of building synchronization events by a synchronization component (e.g., a synchronization server/client) includes obtaining a set of items that have been changed and their new states and retrieving last known states of the set of items that are stored in a reference snapshot inside a filesystem scanner. The method further includes generating differences between the new states and the last known states of the set of items as item changes and utilizing information provided by the item changes to translate the item changes into synchronization events for execution on the opposing file system. A method of handling failed synchronization events by a synchronization component of the cloud-based platform by collapsing a subsequent event with the failed synchronization event is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Campbell Smith, David Mackenzie, Yiming Lu, Kunal Parmar, Peter Potrebic
  • Patent number: 11531648
    Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining and updating file system shadows by a synchronization client of a cloud-based platform. In some embodiments, an executor of the synchronization client can execute an action on an item in the local file system which changes the state of the item from an old state to a new state. The synchronization client updates the file system shadows with the new state of the item via an interface to facilitate generation of a synchronization event for the change to the item, that would otherwise go undetected if the change to the item was immediately reversed. In some embodiments, methods for providing shadow consistency and enhancing concurrent access to shadows are implemented by the synchronization client in maintaining and updating the file system shadows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Campbell Smith, David Mackenzie, Yiming Lu, Peter Potrebic, Florian Jourda, Kunal Parmar
  • Publication number: 20210256094
    Abstract: Systems and methods for document management classification, capture and search are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for document management may include a document taxonomy library comprising a plurality of document taxonomies; a document create module comprising a document metadata repository and a document template/clause repository; a document capture module comprising a metadata repository, an image repository, and a document capture workflow; and a document communicate module comprising an extracted metadata repository. In one embodiment, the document create module creates a document using a document taxonomy from the document taxonomy library, the document metadata repository, and the template clause/repository; the document capture module captures metadata from the document based on a document taxonomy associated with the document; and the document communicate module stores extracted metadata from the document in the extracted metadata repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Harsh Benara, Anant Verma, Graham Robertson, Shambhu Pandey, David MacKenzie, Amol Bakshi
  • Patent number: 11025718
    Abstract: Enterprise administrators in a cloud-based environment including a cloud-based server and a repository can selectively impose permissions on items (e.g., files and folders) marked for synchronization (“sync items”). The sync items can be synchronized with the client devices of users by downloading the items along with the permission attributes from the cloud-based server. However, the permissions on those sync items means that any unpermitted changes to the local copies of the sync items do not get uploaded to the cloud-based server. A synchronization client on the client devices detects any changes made locally to the sync items that are not consistent with the permission attributes, and repairs those changes so that the sync items are restored to their most recent states. This ensures that any unauthorized changes made to sync items remain local and do not propagate by the synchronization process to other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Savage, Kunal Parmar, David Grant Sawyer, Lu Pan, Yiming Lu, David MacKenzie, Jeremy Jen-Ming Chiu
  • Publication number: 20210117387
    Abstract: Techniques for monitoring local and/or remote file systems by a synchronization component (e.g., client/server) of a cloud-based platform are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of building synchronization events by a synchronization component (e.g., a synchronization server/client) includes obtaining a set of items that have been changed and their new states and retrieving last known states of the set of items that are stored in a reference snapshot inside a filesystem scanner. The method further includes generating differences between the new states and the last known states of the set of items as item changes and utilizing information provided by the item changes to translate the item changes into synchronization events for execution on the opposing file system. A method of handling failed synchronization events by a synchronization component of the cloud-based platform by collapsing a subsequent event with the failed synchronization event is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin Campbell Smith, David Mackenzie, Yiming Lu, Kunal Parmar, Peter Potrebic
  • Patent number: 10877937
    Abstract: Techniques for monitoring local and/or remote file systems by a synchronization component (e.g., client/server) of a cloud-based platform are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of building synchronization events by a synchronization component (e.g., a synchronization server/client) includes obtaining a set of items that have been changed and their new states and retrieving last known states of the set of items that are stored in a reference snapshot inside a filesystem scanner. The method further includes generating differences between the new states and the last known states of the set of items as item changes and utilizing information provided by the item changes to translate the item changes into synchronization events for execution on the opposing file system. A method of handling failed synchronization events by a synchronization component of the cloud-based platform by collapsing a subsequent event with the failed synchronization event is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Campbell Smith, David Mackenzie, Yiming Lu, Kunal Parmar, Peter Potrebic
  • Publication number: 20200128073
    Abstract: Enterprise administrators in a cloud-based environment including a cloud-based server and a repository can selectively impose permissions on items (e.g., files and folders) marked for synchronization (“sync items”). The sync items can be synchronized with the client devices of users by downloading the items along with the permission attributes from the cloud-based server. However, the permissions on those sync items means that any unpermitted changes to the local copies of the sync items do not get uploaded to the cloud-based server. A synchronization client on the client devices detects any changes made locally to the sync items that are not consistent with the permission attributes, and repairs those changes so that the sync items are restored to their most recent states. This ensures that any unauthorized changes made to sync items remain local and do not propagate by the synchronization process to other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Brandon Savage, Kunal Parmar, David Grant Sawyer, Lu Pan, Yiming Lu, David MacKenzie, Jeremy Jen-Ming Chiu
  • Patent number: 10530854
    Abstract: Enterprise administrators in a cloud-based environment including a cloud-based server and a repository can selectively impose permissions on items (e.g., files and folders) marked for synchronization (“sync items”). The sync items can be synchronized with the client devices of users by downloading the items along with the permission attributes from the cloud-based server. However, the permissions on those sync items means that any unpermitted changes to the local copies of the sync items do not get uploaded to the cloud-based server. A synchronization client on the client devices detects any changes made locally to the sync items that are not consistent with the permission attributes, and repairs those changes so that the sync items are restored to their most recent states. This ensures that any unauthorized changes made to sync items remain local and do not propagate by the synchronization process to other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Savage, Kunal Parmar, David Grant Sawyer, Lu Pan, Yiming Lu, David MacKenzie, Jeremy Jen-Ming Chiu
  • Patent number: 10210115
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating client software access to messages, such as event messages, generated in a networked computing environment, such as a file-collaboration system. An example method uses a message bus and accompanying Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to allow collaborators to employ client software to interface with highly scalable and organized message bus records, maintained via an underlying distributed database. The APIs and associated interface allow client software; not limited to collaboration software clients; to efficiently publish to, subscribe to, and obtain information about event records of the message bus. An embodiment allows selective load balancing and deferral of event message processing; efficient message offset handling and data center failover functionality, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BOX, INC.
    Inventors: David MacKenzie, Alex Treyger, Priyanka Reddy, Miles Spielberg
  • Patent number: 9953036
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for file system monitoring in a system which incrementally updates clients with what occurred in a cloud-enabled platform. In one embodiment, a method comprises, in response to an event which represents that a modification to an item has taken place on the cloud-based platform, identifying whether execution of the event is to violate any local file system rule. The method further comprises, if the execution of the event is to violate any local file system rule, buffering the event until a subsequent event arrives. The method further comprises identifying whether execution of an aggregate of the events is to violate any local file system rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: David Mackenzie, Benjamin Campbell Smith, Anthony Bishopric
  • Patent number: PP36204
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Panicum plant named ‘Noneulby’ that is characterized by its compact, slightly broad and upright plant habit, its average of 76 cm in height and 61 cm in width in the landscape, its foliage that is blue in color, its flowers that are silver in color and changing to purple in color, and its flowers that are held partially above the foliage (about 1/3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HORTECH, INC.
    Inventor: David MacKenzie
  • Patent number: PP36205
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Panicum plant named ‘Nonlufht’ that is characterized by its plant height of 1.98 m (to top of inflorescence) and plant width of 1.83 m (at the widest point), its vase-shape with arching foliage at the top with a tight base, its green foliage, and its silver flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HORTECH, INC.
    Inventor: David MacKenzie
  • Patent number: PP36232
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Panicum plant named ‘Nondee’ that is characterized by its rounded and upright plant habit with nonlodging clumping foliage with upright flowering spikes above foliage, its average of 61 cm in foliage height, 1.2 m in inflorescence height and 1.2 m in spread in the landscape, its foliage that green in color and becomes flushed with purple in autumn, its flowering period from August to October in Michigan, and its flowers that are maroon-purple in color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: HORTECH, INC.
    Inventor: David MacKenzie
  • Patent number: PP36395
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Panicum plant named ‘Nontlobg’ that is characterized by its average plant height of 2.1 m and plant width of 0.9 m in width, its upright, vase-shaped, and tight plant habit, its narrow base, its broad, green foliage, and its flowers that are rose in color that turn silvery in color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: HORTECH, INC.
    Inventor: David MacKenzie
  • Patent number: PP36511
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Panicum plant named ‘Nonesory’ that is characterized by its average of 0.91 m in height (including inflorescences) and 0.69 m in spread as grown in the landscape for 3 years, its compact and vase shaped plant habit with nonlodging clumping foliage with upright flowering spikes above foliage, its foliage that green in color, its flowering period from August to October in Michigan, and its flowers that are deep rose in color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: HORTECH, INC.
    Inventor: David MacKenzie