Access management using electronic images

    公开(公告)号:US10270780B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-23

    申请号:US14585039

    申请日:2014-12-29

    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are described for an access management system to manage access to a service (e.g., a message management service). A client can receive a message including an electronic image from a messaging service. The electronic image can include access information for obtaining access to a message management service. Input is received that indicates interaction with the electronic image in an interface. The client can send, to the access management system, the electronic image to request access to the message management service based on the access information. Authorization is received from the access management system indicating that the account can access the message management service. The client displays an interface to provide access to the message management service. The access to the message management service can be based on the authorization.

    Embedding dynamic content item preview

    公开(公告)号:US10013397B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-03

    申请号:US15638372

    申请日:2017-06-30

    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F17/212 G06F16/958 G06F17/2205 G06Q10/10

    Abstract: A content management system including a document management system provides documents that include previews of folders in the content management system. The folder preview interface saved in the document is persistent despite changes to the folders stored by the content management system. In addition, previews of individual content items displayed within the folder preview interfaces are synchronized with the corresponding content items on the content management system. In some embodiments, the document may include other types of media including text, images, tables, video, etc. in addition to any embedded preview interfaces. Folder previews may also display previews of subfolders within the folder. A subfolder preview may display a list of content items within the subfolder. A user may also arrange multiple folder preview regions within the same document.

    Comment management in shared documents

    公开(公告)号:US11170056B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-09

    申请号:US16410577

    申请日:2019-05-13

    Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.

    Abstract: A content management system including a document management system provides documents that include comments entered by users. Comments are organized into threads; each thread is associated with a span of text in the document. When a user requests access to a document, the document management system determines which threads are visible to the user based on an audience associated with each thread. the audience comprises the user identifiers of i) the author of the document containing the thread; ii) the authors of comments included in the thread; iii) the authors of any text included in the text span for the thread; iv) any user mentioned in the text span the thread via a user primitive; v) any user mentioned in a comment via user primitive.

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