Collection Folders in a Content Management System

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016335448-A1
Application number	US-201615221556-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 27, 2016
Priority date	Jul 23, 2014
Publication date	Nov 17, 2016
Grant date	—

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computer-implemented method comprising:
creating, by a content management system, a folder in a namespace associated with a collecting user; receiving, by the content management system from a first device associated with a first submitting user, a first content item with a request to add the first content item to the folder; receiving, by the content management system from a second device associated with a second submitting user, a second content item with a request to add the second content item to the folder; adding, by the content management system, the first content item to a first sub-folder within the folder, the first sub-folder associated with the first submitting user; adding, by the content management system, the second content item to a second sub-folder within the folder, the second sub-folder associated with the second submitting user, the first submitting user unable to access the second sub-folder and the second submitting user unable to access the first sub-folder; and providing, by the content management system to the collecting user, access to the first sub-folder and the second sub-folder.

Assignees

• Dropbox Inc

Inventors

• Staley Aaron
• Jain Aditi
• Ferrazares Aisha
• Chen Alicia
• Warty Ashish
• Adams John
• Hui Joseph
• Siegel Kathryn
• Jansson Lennart
• Pan Matteus
• Baesman Rob
• Xu Siyao

Classifications

• G06F21/6245 Primary

  Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes · CPC title

• G06F21/6218 Primary

  to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database · CPC title

• G06F16/2445

  Data retrieval commands; View definitions · CPC title

• G06F2221/2141

  Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices · CPC title

• G06F16/3337

  Translation of the query language, e.g. Chinese to English · CPC title