Hosted storage for third-party services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10878019-B2
Application number	US-201715789818-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2017
Priority date	Oct 20, 2017
Publication date	Dec 29, 2020
Grant date	Dec 29, 2020

Abstract

The disclosed technology relates to a system configured to receive, from a first client device, application data generated from the execution, by the first client device, of third-party application code embedded within a content item managed by a content management system, wherein the first client device is associated with a first user account of the content management system. The system is further configured to store, at the content management system, the application data as metadata associated with the content item and transmit, based on the received application data, a notification to a second client device associated with a second user account of the content management system with access to the content item.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
sending, to a first client device associated with a first user account of a content management system, a content item including first data that is stored in a second storage location, the content item integrating third-party code stored in a first storage location by the content management system, wherein the content management system stores the content item in association with the first user account and a second user account, and manages access to and editing of the content item by the first user account and the second user account, wherein the first storage location and the second storage location are maintained as separate domains by the content management system;
causing the third-party code to be executed in a sandbox to prevent the third-party code from interacting with the first data included in the content item;
receiving, from the first client device, second data to be associated with the third-party code; and
storing the second data in the first storage location so that it is accessible to the third-party code stored in the first storage location, whereby a second client device associated with the second user account can access the content item and execute the third-party code in the sandbox and view the second data.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising sending a notification regarding the second data to the second client device associated with the second user account of the content management system with access to the content item, if there is an open instance of the content item on the second client device, wherein the notification comprises code configured to be executed by the second client device and notify the third-party code executed by the second client device via a postMessage.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the content item is a collaboration document, which permits simultaneous access and editing by the first user account and the second user account.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from the first client device, a request for the content item stored on the content management system, wherein the content item comprises a portion referencing the third-party code.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , further comprising receiving, from the first client device, a request for the third-party code based on the portion of the content item referencing the third-party code.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the second data to be associated with the third-party code is generated based on the first client device executing the third-party code.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , wherein the portion of the content item comprises an iframe.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising sending the second data to be associated with the third-party code to the second client device.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the notification includes the second data to be associated with the third-party code.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, the instructions, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:
send, to a first client device associated with a first user account of a content management system, a content item including first data that is stored in a second storage location, the content item integrating third-party code stored in a first storage location by the content management system, wherein the content management system stores the content item in association with the first user account and a second user account, and manages access to and editing of the content item by the first user account and the second user account, wherein the first storage location and the second storage location are maintained as separate domains by the content management system;
cause the third-party code to be executed in a separate execution environment to prevent the third-party code from interacting with the first data included in the content item;
receive, from the first client device, second data to be associated with the third-party code; and
store, at the content management system, the second data in the first storage location so that it is accessible to the third-party code stored in the first storage location, whereby a second client device associated with the second user account can access the content item and execute the third party code in the separate execution environment and view the second data.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the instructions further cause the computing system to send a notification to the second client device.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the notification includes the second data.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the instructions further cause the computing system to:
receive, from the first client device, a request for the content item stored on the content management system, wherein the content item comprises a portion referencing the third-party code; and
send, in response to receiving the request for the content item, the content item to the first client device.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions further cause the computing system to:
receive, from the first client device, a request for the third-party code based on the portion of the content item referencing the third-party code; and
send, in response to receiving the request for the third-party code, the third-party code to the first client device.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the content item is a collaboration document.

16. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
send, to a first client device associated with a first user account of a content management system, a content item including first data that is stored in a second storage location, the content item integrating third-party code stored in a first storage location by the content management system, wherein the first storage location also includes second data created by a second client device associated with a second user account during interaction with the third-party code on the second client device, wherein the content management system stores the content item in association with the first user account and the second user account, and manages access to and editing of the content item by the first user account and the second user account, wherein the first storage location and the second storage location are maintained as separate domains by the content management system;
execute the third-party code in a sandbox to prevent the third-party code from interacting with the first data included in the content item, wherein the executing the third-party code includes displaying the second data to the first user account.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to send the second data to the first client device.

Assignees

• Dropbox Inc

Inventors

• Embiricos Alexander
• Broussard Matt
• Wu Willy
• Lee Jennifer
• Kofman Igor
• Palkovic Aj

Classifications

• G06F16/25 Primary

  Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems · CPC title

• G06F3/0643

  Management of files · CPC title

• G06F16/24573

  using data annotations, e.g. user-defined metadata · CPC title

• G06F16/27

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

• G06F16/41 Primary

  Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures · CPC title