Box Limited

Faizan Nabi Buzdar

Daniel Wayne Morkovine

Derrik Randal Lansing

Prachi Subhash Jadhav

Michelle Sangeun Oh

Matthew Self

Benjamin John Kus

Pal Ramanathan

Christopher Tucker

Andrew Coven

Victoria Wee

Dhiraj Sekhri

Rohit Bakshi

Aaron Levie

Nathaniel Schlein

Karthik Shanmugasundaram

Sachin Chopra

Yufeng Wu

Drew Parker

Guojing Luo

Yangxinye Yang

Andrew Edelman

Yang Hu

Internet communications between a content management system that stores a plurality of content objects and a third-party system is established. A hierarchy at the third-party system is determined, and a file and folder content object hierarchy at the content management system is generated based on the determined hierarchy at the third-party system. Users of the content management system and users of the third-party system are reconciled by comparing attributes of users of the third-party system with attributes of users of the content management system. Permissions pertaining to user accessed to content objects at the content management system are reconciled with permissions of the third-party system. Reconciled access permissions are applied to content objects of the generated hierarchy at the content management system. Some of the access permissions that are applied to the content object hierarchy of the content management system are more restrictive than the permissions of the third-party system.

Cross-platform collaboration systems

Methods, systems and computer program products for shared content management systems. In a content management system that supports multiple applications that operate on shared documents, multiple modules are operatively interconnected to make and present activity-based application recommendations. Techniques for making activity-based application recommendations include recording a series of interaction events from multiple users, which events correspond to a series of interactions performed by a plurality of applications over a shared content object. Constituent interaction events from the series of interactions are analyzed to determine a set of recommended applications. The set of recommended applications is presented to a user in a dynamically-populated user interface.

Activity-based application recommendations

A user interface is configured to present a stream of activities that arise from operation of two or more heterogeneous applications that access shared content objects of a content management system. A first application of a first type among the heterogeneous applications interoperates with a second application of a second type. Application activity records that correspond to interactions by the second application over the shared content objects are stored. Additional interactions that are raised by the first application and that pertain to a common content object are also stored. When a user requests access to a content object of the content management system, recent application activity records are selected. Some of the selected activity records are filtered out based on permissions attributes corresponding to the content object and/or based on permissions attributes corresponding to the requesting user. An application activity stream is generated based on the selected application activity records.

Forming activity streams across heterogeneous applications

Methods, systems and computer program products for extensible content object workflows. A content management system stores a plurality of content objects. The content management system integrates applications, which integrated applications make modifications to the content objects based on computer-aided invocation of workflows. Upon receipt of a message from a first integrated application indicating an intent to invoke a workflow at a second integrated application, the content management system relays information pertaining to the desired workflow to the second integrated application. The workflow of the second integrated application modifies one or more of the content objects or its metadata or other data associated with the workflow. Selection of the second integrated application can be based on attributes of the content objects, and/or can be based on user interactions within a user interface. Interaction events associated with the workflow performed at the second integrated application are relayed back to the originating application.

Extensible workflow access

Methods, systems and computer program products for shared content management systems that provide performance analytics pertaining to a project. Embodiments include establishing one or more network communication links between a content management system that manages a plurality of shared content objects and a plurality of applications that cause modifications to the shared content objects in accordance with workflows of the project. Iteraction events that correspond to modifications over the shared content objects are recorded such that interaction events associated with the plurality of applications are selected based at least in part on attributes associated with the interaction events. Relationships between the recorded interaction events such as time durations between certain of the interaction events are calculated. Project performance measurements are generated based on the calculations and/or based on other relationships between the interaction events. The calculations may span across many different applications and/or many different departments and/or many different enterprises.

Inter-application workflow performance analytics

Systems and methods for deploying data processing services to operate with a cloud-based collaboration platform. Deployment of a data processing service commences upon receiving a description of a function to perform on content of the cloud-based collaboration platform. The description comprises characteristics of the function as well as characteristics of given input and characteristics of desired output. A data processing service is formed (e.g., compiled) into a collection of executable instructions that communicate with an integration layer of the cloud-based collaboration platform. The data processing service is configured to receive event data indicative of an event pertaining to a content item stored in the cloud-based collaboration platform, and to then process the event data to determine at least one aspect of the input and at least one aspect of the output. The portion of the executable instructions comprising the function are executed on the content item to produce desired output.

Deploying data processing service plug-ins into a cloud-based collaboration platform

A web conferencing system is hosted in a first computing environment and is Internet-connected with a content management system hosted in a second computing environment. Upon detection of an occurrence of a file or folder drag-and-drop event at the web conferencing system, the file or folder corresponding to the drag-and-drop event is made available to the content management system. A directory hierarchy of a file system of the content management system is generated on-the-fly. The content management system initiates operations to retrieve and store a copy of the file or folder into the director hierarchy. Access permissions corresponding to locations within the directory hierarchy where the copy of the file or folder is stored are established such that users of the web conferencing system who were not users of the content management system can access the copy of the file or folder that is stored in the content management system.

Platform-agnostic drag-and-drop operations

Shared content is stored at a cloud-based collaboration platform hosted at first network domain. External data processing services are hosted at a second domain. An integration layer situated between the cloud-based collaboration platform and the external data processing services is configured to receive triggering events pertaining to content of the cloud-based collaboration platform. Based on characteristics of the content, communications with the external data processing services are initiated. The communication includes accessing network interfaces to send and receive data between the network domain of the cloud-based collaboration platform and a different network domain of the external data processing services. A plurality of rules are applied to select between a first external data processing service at a first network domain and a second external data processing service at a second domain. The selected external data processing service is invoked to produce outputs that are further processed by the cloud-based collaboration platform.

Integrating external data processing technologies with a cloud-based collaboration platform

Systems for fine-grained management of plug-ins. A method embodiment commences upon identifying a plug-in to perform a particular computing function in a computing environment. A set of configuration parameters that correspond to the particular computing function are determined. Based at least in part on the determined configuration parameters, an instance-specific plug-in management wrapper corresponding is generated. The instance-specific plug-in management wrapper includes fine-grained management controls so as to be able to observe performance characteristics, functional characteristics and other runtime characteristics of the plug-in while it operates in the computing system. When a particular plug-in is invoked, its management wrapper is automatically generated so as to encapsulate the particular plug-in. Deployment instructions are generated to instantiate the plug-in management wrapper and its encapsulated plug-in in the computing system. When the plug-in has performed its function, any measurements taken by the management wrapper are saved and the generated management wrapper is destroyed.

Plug-in management wrappers

Systems and methods for combining two or more outputs of two or more data processing services. A method embodiment commences upon receiving an event indication and a content item from a cloud-based collaboration platform. The method analyzes the event and the content item to determine two or more data processing services to apply to the content item. The method further determines a common metric to use to correlate two or more different outputs from the two or more data processing services. The method invokes both of the two or more data processing services, which in turn each generate respective outputs. Metadata that relates the respective outputs based on the common metric as well as the outputs themselves are stored for retrieval by the cloud-based collaboration platform. A query is executed to retrieve at least portions of the respective outputs and corresponding metadata. The retrieved data is correlated in a display.

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