公开(公告)号：US11630554B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-18

申请号：US17819118

申请日：2022-08-11

Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.

Inventor： Vivek Patel ,  Mark C Dixon ,  Gibu Thomas ,  Ashish Chordia ,  Nichole C Gabriel

IPC: G06F3/0482 ,  G06F11/07 ,  G06F16/14 ,  G06F16/40 ,  G06F16/48 ,  G06F16/438 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  H04L67/06 ,  G06F11/14

Abstract: In a synchronization system that synchronizes files from multiple computing devices, the present invention provides a method for (1) displaying files from multiple computing devices in a multi-view user interface and (2) enabling content and file operations to be performed on such files through the user interface. The multi-view interface includes a file-system view and one or more media-specific views. In the file-system view files are organized in the same way in which they are organized on the devices on which they are stored. In the file-system view, users can perform file operations on files. In the media-specific view files are organized by media category. In one embodiment of the media-specific view, files are organized by metadata that relates to the files content. In the media-specific view, users can perform content operations on the files.