Systems and methods for creating shared virtual spaces

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9423922-B2
Application number	US-201414247853-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2014
Priority date	Dec 24, 2013
Publication date	Aug 23, 2016
Grant date	Aug 23, 2016

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for creating shared virtual spaces (“rooms”). A room may be created when a user first shares images with another user. A user may send a request to a content management system to share one or more images with various contacts. In response, a room is created by the content management system in which a copy of each image is stored. Images added to a room are copied to a separate “rooms” database, and “locked,” being saved in the room for a period of time, which may be indefinitely. Changes made by the user to a room via a user device may be displayed as soon as indicated, without waiting for the information to be sent to a system server or its state to be made consistent with that of the user device. Room activity notifications may be sent to members in various ways.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a user device from a user, a share request comprising at least one contact of the user and a content item;
creating, locally on the user device, a shared virtual space to store the at least one content item;
displaying, at the user device, the shared virtual space comprising the content item, wherein the user can interact with the content item prior to a global version of the shared virtual space being created;
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Assignees

• Dropbox Inc

Inventors

• Welinder Nils Peter
• Kleinpeter Thomas
• Wright Thomas
• Balakrishnan Ramesh
• Wen Tina
• Nayak Rajeev

Classifications

• H04L67/141

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/1097

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L65/403 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F3/0481 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0484

  Physics · mapped topic