APPARENT CLOUD ACCESS FOR HOSTED CONTENT ITEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20170222865A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-03

    申请号:US15355305

    申请日:2016-11-18

    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques for apparent cloud access of a hosted content item. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed at a personal computing device comprising a user agent comprises: receiving a block agent request for a content item from the user agent; determining content item block identifiers of content item blocks that make up the content item; determining which, if any, of the content item blocks that make up the content item are not stored in a local storage of the personal computing device; downloading, from a block server of an online content management system, any of the content item blocks that are not stored in a local storage of the personal computing device; and sending to the user agent, in a response to the block agent request, data of each of the content item blocks that make up the content item.

    SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOL FOR MULTI-PREMISES HOSTING OF DIGITAL CONTENT ITEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20170124170A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-04

    申请号:US14979252

    申请日:2015-12-22

    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.

    Abstract: A synchronization protocol for multi-premises hosting of digital content items. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises the operations of: detecting creation or modification of a content item; determining a content item namespace to which the content item belongs; obtaining a plurality of identifiers of a plurality of block servers to which the content item namespace is assigned; making a selection of one of the plurality of block servers as a target block server; and uploading any content item blocks of the content item to the target block server that are not already stored at the target block server.

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