Dropbox Assigned Three Patents

Preserving content item collection data across interfaces
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA has been assigned a patent (9,298,797) developed by Balakrishnan, Ramesh, Nayak, Rajeev, and Smith, Brian, San Francisco, CA, for a “preserving content item collection data across interfaces.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for preserving collection data across interfaces are disclosed. The system can generate, for a collection of content items stored in multiple user accounts in a synced online content management system, an index of the content items in the collection. The index can store, a content item identifier and a file location, for each content item. Upon detecting that a content item in the collection is moved to a new file location, the system can retrieve a collection identifier from metadata associated with the content item. The system can then locate the index for the collection associated with the collection identifier based on the collection identifier retrieved from the metadata associated with the content item. The system can then update the file location stored at the index for the content item to identify the new file location.“

The patent application was filed on August 26, 2014 (14/469,036).

Application programming interfaces for data synchronization
with online storage systems
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA has been assigned a patent (9,298,391) developed by Smith, Brian E., Bezek, Scott, Potter, Jacob D., and Twyman, Andrew R., San Francisco, CA, for a “application programming interfaces for data synchronization with online storage systems.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed embodiments provide a system that manages access to data associated with an online storage system. During operation, the system enables synchronization of the data between an electronic device and the online storage system through an application programming interface, (API) with an application on the electronic device. Next, the system uses the API to provide a synchronization state of the data to the application, wherein the synchronization state comprises at least one of a download state, an upload state, an idle state, a transfer progress, a cached state, and an error state.“

The patent application was filed on February 11, 2013 (13/764,297).

Content item templates
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA has been assigned a patent (9,298,355) developed by Beausoleil, Sean, Mountain View, CA, Pan, Matteus, Greze, Jean-Denis, and DeVincenzi, Anthony, San Francisco, CA, for a “content item templates.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”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.“

The patent application was filed on May 29, 2015 (14/726,002).