Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pre-authorizing a client application to access a user account on a content management system
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Application No.: US15979441Application Date: 2018-05-14
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Publication No.: US10484383B2Publication Date: 2019-11-19
- Inventor: Huy Nguyen , Josh Kaplan , Viraj Mody , Ritu Vincent , Andrew Bortz , David Euresti
- Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
- Current Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Polsinelli PC
- Main IPC: G06F7/04
- IPC: G06F7/04 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F8/61 ; G06F21/33 ; G06F21/41 ; G06F21/62

Abstract:
A content management system can tag a client installer with an information tag linking the client installer to a user account. The client installer can be configured to install the client-side application on the client device and pass the identification tag to the installed client-side application. The client-side application can transmit the identification tag to the content management system, which can use the identification tag to identify the linked user account and log the client-side application into the user account. The content management system can implement several verification measures such as limiting the number of times and when an identification tag can be used, as well as IP addresses that can use the identification tag. The content management system can also use data cached by the web-browser application to determine if the web-browser application was used to access the user account in the past.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180262508A1 PRE-AUTHORIZING A CLIENT APPLICATION TO ACCESS A USER ACCOUNT ON A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-09-13
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