Administrator console for an organization directory

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10789268-B2
Application number	US-201715857715-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 29, 2017
Priority date	Dec 28, 2017
Publication date	Sep 29, 2020
Grant date	Sep 29, 2020

Abstract

The present technology pertains to a organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, when executed the instructions are effective to cause a content management system to:
present an administrator console for managing an organization directory, the organization directory including team folders and user folders;
receive a request to manage one of the team folders or user folders;
in response to the request, elevate an access privilege of an administrator;
archive one of the team folders or user folders; and
remove entries in an access control list pertaining to the one of the team folders or user folders.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the request is to manage one of the team folders, and the elevation of the access privilege of the administrator includes instructions to cause the content management system to:
provide the administrator with a team owner privilege; and
in response to an action by the administrator operating with the team owner privilege, change access rights to one of the team folders.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the request is to manage one of the user folders, and the elevation of the access privilege of the administrator includes instructions to cause the content management system to:
provide the administrator a user role, the user role being specific to a user account of the one of the user folders to which the administrator has requested to manage; and
in response to an action by the administrator operating in the user role, modify an aspect of the user folder.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to archive the one of the team folders or user folders includes moving the folder to be archived into an archive folder, the archive folder being invisible to all users browsing the organization directory.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to archive the one of the team folders or user folders includes instructions to:
save data descriptive of the entries in the access control list in association with the folder to be archived.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , comprising instructions to cause the content management system to:
present an informational view within the administrator console, wherein the presentation of the informational view does not require elevated access privileges to view.

7. A method comprising:
presenting an administrator console for managing an organization directory, the organization directory including team folders and user folders;
receiving a request to manage one of the team folders or user folders;
in response to the request, elevating an access privilege of an administrator;
archiving one of the team folders or user folders; and
removing entries in an access control list pertaining to the one of the team folders or user folders.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the request is to manage one of the team folders, and the elevating of the access privileges of the administrator includes:
providing the administrator with a team owner privilege; and
in response to an action by the administrator operating with the team owner privilege, changing access rights to one of the team folders.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the request is to manage one of the user folders, and the elevating of the access privilege of the administrator includes:
providing the administrator a user role, the user role being specific to a user account of the one of the user folders to which the administrator has requested to manage; and
in response to an action by the administrator operating in the user role, modifying an aspect of the user folder.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the archiving the one of the team folders or user folders includes moving the folder to be archived into an archive folder, the archive folder being invisible to all users browsing the organization directory.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the archiving the one of the team folders or user folders includes:
saving data descriptive of the entries in the access control list in association with the folder to be archived.

12. The method of claim 7 , comprising:
presenting an informational view within the administrator console, wherein the presentation of the informational view does not require elevated access privileges to view.

13. A content management system comprising:
at least one processor;
at least one memory having instructions stored thereon, that when executed the instructions are effective to cause the at least one processor to:
present an administrator console for managing an organization directory, the organization directory including team folders and user folders;
receive a request to manage one of the team folders or user folders;
in response to the request, elevate an access privilege of an administrator;
move one the team folders or user folders into an archive folder; and
remove entries in an access control list pertaining to the one the team folders or user folders.

14. The content management system of claim 13 , wherein the request is to manage one of the team folders, and the elevation of the access privileges of the administrator includes instructions to cause the at least one processor to:
provide the administrator with a team owner privilege; and
in response to an action by the administrator operating with the team owner privilege, change access rights to one of the team folders.

15. The content management system of claim 13 , wherein the request is to manage one of the user folders, and the elevation of the access privilege of the administrator includes instructions to cause the at least one processor to:
provide the administrator a user role, the user role being specific to a user account of the one of the user folders to which the administrator has requested to manage; and
in response to an action by the administrator operating in the user role, modify an aspect of the user folder.

16. The content management system of claim 13 , wherein the archive folder is invisible to all users browsing the organization directory.

17. The content management system of claim 13 , comprising instructions to cause the at least one processor to:
save data descriptive of the entries in the access control list in association with the one the team folders or user folders moved to the archive folder.

18. The content management system of claim 13 , comprising instructions to cause the at least one processor to:
present an informational view within the administrator console, wherein the presentation of the informational view does not require elevated access privileges to view.

Assignees

• Dropbox Inc

Inventors

• Lee Howard
• Staley Aaron
• Bunger Nils
• Vora Rohan
• Mansour Yosrie
• Johnston Zach

Classifications

• G06F16/27 Primary

  Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor · CPC title

• G06F16/11 Primary

  File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots (error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operations G06F11/14) · CPC title

• H04L67/01

  Protocols · CPC title

• G06F16/16

  File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems · CPC title

• H04L9/3213

  using tickets or tokens, e.g. Kerberos (network architectures or network communication protocols for entities authentication using tickets in a packet data network H04L63/0807) · CPC title