Patents by Inventor Francois Alexander Allain
Francois Alexander Allain 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).
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Patent number: 11106778Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling administrators of teams that use a particular service to specify which sign-on options, of multiple possible sign-on options, are assigned to the members of the teams to which the administrators belong. For example, an administrator may assign a sign-on option, which allows members of the team to use either native authentication or third-party single-sign-on authentication. Upon successful authentication of a member using third party single sign-on authentication, the member is automatically assigned to use only the third party single sign-on authentication.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Anand Subramani, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 11023424Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for migrating content items from a source user account to a target user account. A user can specify content items in the source user account to be migrated to an existing or new target user account. A new content entry including an account identifier of the target account and a pointer to the content item can be created for each migrated content item. Further, a determination can be made as to whether a sharing link to each content item exists, and if so, the content pointer of the old content entry is modified to forward or redirect to the new content entry. An active flag associated with the old content entry can be set to false or 0 to indicate that the old content entry is no longer active.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Chris Beckmann, Joshua Jenkins, Francois Alexander Allain, Jeffrey Bartelma
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Patent number: 10977219Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for migrating content items from a source user account to a target user account. A user can specify content items in the source user account to be migrated to an existing or new target user account. A new content entry including an account identifier of the target account and a pointer to the content item can be created for each migrated content item. Further, a determination can be made as to whether a sharing link to each content item exists, and if so, the content pointer of the old content entry is modified to forward or redirect to the new content entry. An active flag associated with the old content entry can be set to false or 0 to indicate that the old content entry is no longer active.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Chris Beckmann, Joshua Jenkins, Francois Alexander Allain, Jeffrey Bartelma
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Publication number: 20200356654Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling administrators of teams that use a particular service to specify which sign-on options, of multiple possible sign-on options, are assigned to the members of the teams to which the administrators belong. For example, an administrator may assign a sign-on option, which allows members of the team to use either native authentication or third-party single-sign-on authentication. Upon successful authentication of a member using third party single sign-on authentication, the member is automatically assigned to use only the third party single sign-on authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2018Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Anand Subramani, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 10778763Abstract: A content item sharing and synchronization system providing team shared folders is described. Users of the system have access to the team shared folder simply by being a member of a team. A team account manager of the team can grant access to the team shared folder simply by inviting selected users to the team. Similarly, the team account manager can revoke access to the team shared folder simply by removing a user from the team. Unlike typical network file server folders, separate access control list management for the team shared folder apart from user team membership management is not needed to grant and revoke access to the team shared folder, thereby reducing administrative steps necessary to effectively manage access to the team shared folder.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Dropbox Inc.Inventors: Anand Subramani, Mark Delamere, Emil Ibrishimov, Francois Alexander Allain
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Publication number: 20200042691Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling administrators of teams that use a particular service to specify which sign-on options, of multiple possible sign-on options, are assigned to the members of the teams to which the administrators belong. For example, an administrator may assign a sign-on option, which allows members of the team to use either native authentication or third-party single-sign-on authentication. Upon successful authentication of a member using third party single sign-on authentication, the member is automatically assigned to use only the third party single sign-on authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Anand Subramani, Francois Alexander Allain
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Publication number: 20190230159Abstract: A content item sharing and synchronization system providing team shared folders is described. Users of the system have access to the team shared folder simply by being a member of a team. A team account manager of the team can grant access to the team shared folder simply by inviting selected users to the team. Similarly, the team account manager can revoke access to the team shared folder simply by removing a user from the team. Unlike typical network file server folders, separate access control list management for the team shared folder apart from user team membership management is not needed to grant and revoke access to the team shared folder, thereby reducing administrative steps necessary to effectively manage access to the team shared folder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Anand Subramani, Mark Delamere, Emil Ibrishimov, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 10264067Abstract: A content item sharing and synchronization system providing team shared folders is described. Users of the system have access to the team shared folder simply by being a member of a team. A team account manager of the team can grant access to the team shared folder simply by inviting selected users to the team. Similarly, the team account manager can revoke access to the team shared folder simply by removing a user from the team. Unlike typical network file server folders, separate access control list management for the team shared folder apart from user team membership management is not needed to grant and revoke access to the team shared folder, thereby reducing administrative steps necessary to effectively manage access to the team shared folder.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Anand Subramani, Mark Delamere, Emil Ibrishimov, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 10212143Abstract: A method, system, and manufacture for authorizing an untrusted client device for access on a content management system. The content management system receives a request from an untrusted client device to access content on the content management system. The content management system sends an authentication key to the untrusted client device. The content management system then receives the authentication key from a trusted client device. Based on the matching authentication key, the content management system transmits data to the untrusted client device in accordance with any additional instructions that the trusted client device may have sent.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Francois Alexander Allain, Jie Tang
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Patent number: 10057241Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling administrators of teams that use a particular service to specify which sign-on options, of multiple possible sign-on options, are assigned to the members of the teams to which the administrators belong. For example, an administrator may assign a first sign-on option, which only allows users to use native authentication, to one set of members of the team. At the same time, the administrator may assign a second sign-on option, which only allows users to use third-party single-sign-on authentication, to another set of members of the same team.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Anand Subramani, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 9977917Abstract: A content management system implementing methodologies providing retroactive shared content item links is disclosed. The content management system and methodologies allow a team administrator of a team to configure a team-wide shared link policy that determines whether non-team members can access content items associated with team accounts using shared links generated for the content items by team members. The team shared link policy has two settings. In a first setting, the content management system allows non-team members to use shared links generated by team members to access content items associated with team accounts. In a second setting, the content management system blocks access to the content items by non-team members. Shared links are retroactive in the sense they do not need to be regenerated after the team shared link policy has been changed from the second setting back to the first setting.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Anand Subramani, Mark Delamere, Jonathan Vincent, Philip Rha, Emil Ibrishimov, Thomas Carriero, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 9898480Abstract: The disclosed technology can enable files to be stored with a networked environment. The files can be associated with information (e.g., properties) such as a file name, a file type, a date/time at which a respective file was last accessed, a number of times a respective file was accessed, data representing the contents of a respective file, and other information. Based at least in part on analyzing the information, the disclosed technology can select or identify a file and/or a file property (e.g., a file type) that the disclosed technology predicts to be most relevant to the user. The disclosed technology can then recommend applications based at least in part on the selected or identified file and/or file property (e.g., file type).Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Ilya Fushman, Thomas Carriero, Francois Alexander Allain
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Publication number: 20170300710Abstract: A content management system implementing methodologies providing retroactive shared content item links is disclosed. The content management system and methodologies allow a team administrator of a team to configure a team-wide shared link policy that determines whether non-team members can access content items associated with team accounts using shared links generated for the content items by team members. The team shared link policy has two settings. In a first setting, the content management system allows non-team members to use shared links generated by team members to access content items associated with team accounts. In a second setting, the content management system blocks access to the content items by non-team members. Shared links are retroactive in the sense they do not need to be regenerated after the team shared link policy has been changed from the second setting back to the first setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Anand Subramani, Mark Delamere, Jonathan Vincent, Philip Rha, Emil Ibrishimov, Thomas Carriero, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 9749408Abstract: Techniques are described herein for managing unsynchronized content items when the personal computing devices storing the unsynchronized content items are unlinked from a content item synchronization service. The techniques involve treating synchronized content items differently from unsynchronized content items. For example, after a personal computing is unlinked from the service, synchronized content items may be removed or deleted from the personal computing device and unsynchronized content items encrypted and/or moved to another data storage location.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Anand Subramani, Francois Alexander Allain, Emil Ibrishimov, Anton Anastasov
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Patent number: 9734347Abstract: A content management system implementing methodologies providing retroactive shared content item links is disclosed. The content management system and methodologies allow a team administrator of a team to configure a team-wide shared link policy that determines whether non-team members can access content items associated with team accounts using shared links generated for the content items by team members. The team shared link policy has two settings. In a first setting, the content management system allows non-team members to use shared links generated by team members to access content items associated with team accounts. In a second setting, the content management system blocks access to the content items by non-team members. Shared links are retroactive in the sense they do not need to be regenerated after the team shared link policy has been changed from the second setting back to the first setting.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Anand Subramani, Mark Delamere, Jonathan Vincent, Philip Rha, Emil Ibrishimov, Thomas Carriero, Francois Alexander Allain
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Publication number: 20170134371Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling administrators of teams that use a particular service to specify which sign-on options, of multiple possible sign-on options, are assigned to the members of the teams to which the administrators belong. For example, an administrator may assign a first sign-on option, which only allows users to use native authentication, to one set of members of the team. At the same time, the administrator may assign a second sign-on option, which only allows users to use third-party single-sign-on authentication, to another set of members of the same team.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Anand Subramani, Francois Alexander Allain
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Publication number: 20170048315Abstract: A content item sharing and synchronization system providing team shared folders is described. Users of the system have access to the team shared folder simply by being a member of a team. A team account manager of the team can grant access to the team shared folder simply by inviting selected users to the team. Similarly, the team account manager can revoke access to the team shared folder simply by removing a user from the team. Unlike typical network file server folders, separate access control list management for the team shared folder apart from user team membership management is not needed to grant and revoke access to the team shared folder, thereby reducing administrative steps necessary to effectively manage access to the team shared folder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Anand Subramani, Mark Delamere, Emil Ibrishimov, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 9553868Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling administrators of teams that use a particular service to specify which sign-on options, of multiple possible sign-on options, are assigned to the members of the teams to which the administrators belong. For example, an administrator may assign a first sign-on option, which only allows users to use native authentication, to one set of members of the team. At the same time, the administrator may assign a second sign-on option, which only allows users to use third-party single-sign-on authentication, to another set of members of the same team.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Anand Subramani, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 9426216Abstract: A content item sharing and synchronization system providing team shared folders is described. Users of the system have access to the team shared folder simply by being a member of a team. A team account manager of the team can grant access to the team shared folder simply by inviting selected users to the team. Similarly, the team account manager can revoke access to the team shared folder simply by removing a user from the team. Unlike typical network file server folders, separate access control list management for the team shared folder apart from user team membership management is not needed to grant and revoke access to the team shared folder, thereby reducing administrative steps necessary to effectively manage access to the team shared folder.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Anand Subramani, Mark Delamere, Emil Ibrishimov, Francois Alexander Allain
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Patent number: 9294485Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling access to shared content in an online content management system, include receiving a request to access a content item from a requester, wherein the content item is stored in a synchronized online content management system. The example method then includes determining that the requester is in an approved list of requestors and granting access to the content item. In one variation, the request to access the content item includes activation of a shared link. In another variation, the request to access the content item includes access to a shared folder in the synchronized online content management system. In a third variation, determining that the requester is in an approved list of requesters includes determining that the requester is logged into a primary and secondary account, and that the requester is in an approved list for the secondary account.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Francois Alexander Allain, Anand Subramani