Collection folders in a content management system

US9430669B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Dropbox, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Aaron Staley · San Francisco, US
• Aditi Jain · San Francisco, US
• Aisha Ferrazares · San Francisco, US
• Alicia Chen · San Francisco, US
• Ashish Warty · San Jose, US
• John Adams · San Francisco, US
• Joseph Hui · Berkeley, US
• Kathryn Siegel · San Francisco, US
• Lennart Jansson · Seattle, US
• Matteus Pan · San Francisco, US
• Rob Baesman · Belmont, US
• Siyao Xu · Cambridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 30, 2016
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2221/2141
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A content management system allows a user to create a collection folder to which a submitting user can add content items without being able to access content items added to the folder by other submitting users. A collection folder is created in a namespace of a collecting user and folder is made available to multiple submitting users to allow the submitting users to add items to the folder. When a submitting user first request to store a content item in the collection folder, the content management system creates a sub-folder associated with the submitting user in the collection folder and stores the content item in the sub-folder. The submitting user is given rights to the sub-folder, but is not given rights to sub-folders created for other submitting users.