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- Patent Title: Managing drafts of electronic documents across client devices
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Application No.: US16822386Application Date: 2020-03-18
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Publication No.: US11128594B2Publication Date: 2021-09-21
- Inventor: Adam Cue , Tim Van Damme , George Milton Underwood, IV , Sean Beausoleil , Belinda Preno , Steven Kabbes , David Barshow , Anthony DeVincenzi
- Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: DLA Piper LLP (US)
- Main IPC: H04L12/58
- IPC: H04L12/58 ; H04L29/08 ; G06Q10/10 ; G06F16/27 ; H04W4/12

Abstract:
Techniques are described for managing, drafts of an electronic document (e.g., an electronic note, an electronic message, an electronic calendar invitation, and/or other types of electronic documents) between client devices. Such an electronic document can be composed using different clients, such that composing the document can be continued using different clients. A draft of an electronic document can be stored by clients and/or the message management service as a metadata. A message management service can be implemented as an intermediary computing system to manage a current version of a draft in local storage when a draft is composed using a client device. The message management service can manage version information of a draft that is exists, if any, on each of the client devices. The message management service can synchronize a draft of the message with client devices when a draft is composed using a client device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200220834A1 MANAGING DRAFTS OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS ACROSS CLIENT DEVICES Public/Granted day:2020-07-09
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