公开(公告)号：US20140337482A1

公开(公告)日：2014-11-13

申请号：US14339235

申请日：2014-07-23

Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.

Inventor： Drew Houston ,  Arash Ferdowsi

IPC: H04L29/08

CPC classification number: H04L67/06 ,  G06F17/30067 ,  G06F17/30174 ,  H04L67/1095

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.

Abstract translation: 提供了通过网络在多个客户端之间共享的文件夹的同步。 第一客户端的第一用户实例化要共享的文件夹，并且文件夹及其内容与主机系统同步。 当用户对第一个客户端上的文件夹及其内容进行更改时，这些更改将传播到主机服务器上的同步版本。 将与主机系统共享同步文件夹的其他客户端，并获取当前版本的同步文件夹和内容。 由于任何客户端都会更改同步文件夹的内容，所以更改将传播到主机系统，主机系统将更改传递给注册为共享该文件夹的每个客户端。 以这种方式，参与共享的每个客户端都有该文件夹的当前版本及其内容。