Content-item linking system for messaging services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9300611-B2
Application number	US-201313851044-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2013
Priority date	Mar 26, 2013
Publication date	Mar 29, 2016
Grant date	Mar 29, 2016

Abstract

A client service, such as a plug-in to a browser, can alter a document retrieved from a compatible service to augment the document with services from an online content management service. When an application retrieves a compatible document, the client service can detect a document element within the document and alter the document to provide an activatable reference to the online content management service. For example, a client service can recognize an email composition webpage or an email display webpage and insert activatable references provide services from the online content management service. In email composition webpages, a reference can be a button that allows an email author to insert a link to a content item from the online content management service. In email display webpages, references can be added that allow attachments to be sent to the online content management service for storage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
sending, by a browser executing on a computing system, to a content management server associated with an online content management service, a request to access the online content management service for an email author, wherein the content management server stores a plurality of content items for the online content management service;
receiving, from the content management server, access information associated with the email author, the…

Assignees

• Dropbox Inc

Inventors

• Mody Viraj

Classifications

• H04L51/10 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/08 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic