Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network folder synchronization
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Application No.: US16192840Application Date: 2018-11-16
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Publication No.: US10911518B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Drew Houston , Arash Ferdowsi
- Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F16/10 ; G06F16/178 ; G06F16/00

Abstract:
Synchronization of folders shared among multiple clients over a network is provided. A first user of a first client instantiates a folder to be shared, and the folder and its contents are synchronized with a host system. As the user makes changes to the folder and its contents on the first client, those changes are propagated to the synchronized version on the host server. Other clients who will be sharing the synchronized folder register with the host system and obtain a current version of the synchronized folder and contents. As the contents of the synchronized folder are changed by any of the clients, the changes are propagated to the host system, which in turn delivers the changes to each of the clients registered as sharing that folder. In this way, each client participating in the share has a current version of the folder and its contents.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190089768A1 Network Folder Synchronization Public/Granted day:2019-03-21
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