Dropbox Assigned Patent

Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,934,303) developed by Newhouse, Benjamin Zeis, San Francisco, CA, for a “storage constrained synchronization engine.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A client application of a content management system provides instructions for synchronizing content items and placeholder items using a local file journal and updated file journal. The client application compares entries in the updated file journal to entries in the local file journal to determine modifications to make to content items or placeholder items stored in a shared content storage directory on the client device. Based on the result of the comparison, the client application replaces placeholder items with content items or replaces content items with placeholder items.”

The patent application was filed on January 30, 2017 (15/420,003).