Patents by Inventor SHUOQING DING

SHUOQING DING 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).

  • Techniques for eventually consistent inheritance propagation for nested content item namespaces
    Patent number: 10713378
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for inheritance-based propagation is provided. The method comprises receiving a request from a client computer to update an access permission associated with a specific namespace in a nested namespace structure for a user, the specific namespace being associated with a group of users, wherein the nested namespace structure includes one or more child namespaces of the specific namespace; causing updating of the access permission associated with the specific namespace for the user; identifying the specific namespace as the current namespace; and performing an iterative process having the following steps until a termination criterion is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Tsahi Glik, Shuoqing Ding, Ben Newhouse, Aaron Staley
  • TECHNIQUES FOR EVENTUALLY CONSISTENT INHERITANCE PROPAGATION FOR NESTED CONTENT ITEM NAMESPACES
    Publication number: 20190188408
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for inheritance-based propagation is provided. The method comprises receiving a request from a client computer to update an access permission associated with a specific namespace in a nested namespace structure for a user, the specific namespace being associated with a group of users, wherein the nested namespace structure includes one or more child namespaces of the specific namespace; causing updating of the access permission associated with the specific namespace for the user; identifying the specific namespace as the current namespace; and performing an iterative process having the following steps until a termination criterion is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: TSAHI GLIK, SHUOQING DING, BEN NEWHOUSE, AARON STALEY