Maintaining multiple versions of a collection of content items

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019102369-A1
Application number	US-201715721158-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 29, 2017
Priority date	Sep 29, 2017
Publication date	Apr 4, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for copying content from a rendered document into another document. The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art to maintain a version of a collection of content items that includes changes and/or comments from a first group of users, and provide a second version of the collection of content items to an external user that does not include internal comments and/or visible changes. The solution may provide a work product that appears complete and/or professional to the second group of users, while the first group of users continue to update and/or collaborate on the first version of the collection of content items.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computer-implemented method of communications for a content management system, the method comprising:
maintaining a first version of a collection of content items and a second version of the collection of content items, the first version of the collection of content items and the second version of the collection of content items being accessible to a first group of users, the second version of the collection of content items being accessible to a second group of users, and the first group of users being a subset of the second group of users; and receiving first information associated with a first change to the first version of the collection of content items, wherein the maintaining the first version of the collection of content items comprises:
applying the first change to the first version of the collection of content items accessible to the first group of users, the first change to the first version of the collection of content items being displayed as a marked version of the collection of content items, the second version of the collection of content items not including the first change to the collection of content items until an acceptance message is received at the content management system.

2 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the first information includes one or more comments or edits and an indication of one or more users associated with each of the one or more comments or edits, wherein the applying the first change to the first version of the collection of content items comprises:
applying the one or more comments or edits and the indication of the one or more users to the first version of the collection of content items.

3 . The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more comments and the indication are not maintained in the second version of the collection of content items.

4 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving the acceptance message to apply the first change to the second version of the collection of content items accessible to the second group of users, wherein the maintaining the second version of the collection of content items comprises:
applying the first change to the second version of the collection of content items, the first change being indicated in the second version of the collection of content items.

5 . The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , further comprising:
sending a notification to the second group of users indicating that the first change is applied to the second version of the collection of content items.

6 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving second information associated with an interaction with the second version of the collection of content items by at least one user in the second group of users, the interaction being associated with at least one content item of the collection of content items, and the at least one user in the second group of users not being included in the first group of users.

7 . The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein the maintaining the first version of the collection of content items for the content management system comprises:
maintaining the second information associated with the interaction with the second version of the collection of content items with the at least one content item of the collection of content items.

8 . The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising:
receiving, at the content management system, an instruction to display the second information associated with the interaction with the second version of the collection of content items; and causing a display of the second information associated with the interaction with the second version of the collection of content items, the second information being displayed on the first version of the collection of content items.

9 . The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , further comprising:
receiving, at the content management system, a notification indicating that the second version of the collection of content items is accessed by the at least one user in the second group of users or is interacted with by the at least one user in the second group of users.

10 . The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the notification indicates an amount of time that the at least one content item associated with the collection of content items is accessed by the at least one user in the second group of users or is interacted with by the at least one user in the second group of users.

11 . The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the amount of time includes a length of time a video file is accessed by the at least one user in the second group of users.

12 . The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , further comprising:
sending a first notification to the second group of users indicating that the second version of the collection of content items is accessible.

13 . The computer-implemented method of claim 12 , further comprising:
accessing a user account associated with the content management system when the second version of the collection of content items is accessed by the at least one user in the second group of users via the first notification; and maintaining an association between the user account and the second information.

14 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a request to access the collection of content items, the request including a user identification (ID); determining which version of the collection of content items is associated with the user ID based on an access control list; and granting access to either the first version of the collection of content items or the second version of the collection of content items based on the determination.

15 . A system comprising:
a processor; and a computer-readable storage medium having processor-executable instructions stored therein for causing the processor to:
maintain, at a content management system, a first version of a collection of content items and a second version of the collection of content items, the first version of the collection of content items and the second version of the collection of content items being accessible to a first group of users, the second version of the collection of content items being accessible to a second group of users, and the first group of users being a subset of the second group of users; and
receive first information associated with a first change to at least one item of the first version of the collection of content items, wherein the processor is configured to maintain the first version of the collection of content items by:
applying the first change to the first version of the collection of content items accessible to the first group of users, the first change to the first version of the collection of content items being displayed as a marked version of the collection of content items, the second version of the collection of content items not including the first change to the collection of content items until the second version of the collection of content items is synchronized with the first version of collection of content items by the content management system.

16 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the first information includes one or more comments and an indication of one or more individuals associated with each of the one or more comments, wherein the processor is configured to apply the first change to the first version of the collection of content items by:
applying the

Assignees

• Dropbox Inc

Inventors

• Valloppillil Vinod
• Liu Henry
• Hassan Ryhan
• Sprauve Eric
• Kim Jong-Moon
• Paduano Francesco
• Davis Jane
• Fish David
• Hurwitz Jacob
• Rudolph Kate

Classifications

• G06F40/197 Primary

  Version control (for software G06F8/71) · CPC title

• G06F40/169

  Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes · CPC title

• H04L63/0807 Primary

  using tickets, e.g. Kerberos (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using tickets or tokens H04L9/3213) · CPC title

• G06F16/11

  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

• H04L63/08

  for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32) · CPC title