Box Limited

James Huamonte

Pierre-Alexandre Masse

Brian Tran

Tiffany Low

Annie Pearl

Ted Blosser

Shubhro Jyoti Roy

Poorva Potnis

Anthony Urbanowicz

Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for generating jobs by applying user-specified metadata rules to metadata events. More specifically, the scalable architecture described herein uses metadata to drive automations and/or polices in a cloud-based environment. In one embodiment, the architecture integrates a metadata service with an event-based automation engine to automatically trigger polices and/or automations based on metadata and/or changes in metadata changes. The metadata service can include customizable and/or pre-build metadata templates which can be used to automatically apply a metadata framework (e.g., particular fields) to files based on, for example, the upload or placement of a particular file in a particular folder. The architecture also provides for advanced metadata searching and data classification.

Configurable metadata-based automation and content classification architecture for cloud-based collaboration platforms

According to one embodiment, distributing data across a plurality of storage shards can comprise generating a file key for each file of a plurality of files stored in a plurality of physical shards, each physical shard maintained by a node of a plurality of nodes in one or more clusters. The file key can comprise a hash of an enterprise identifier for an entity to which the creator of the file is a member, a hash of a folder identifier for a location in which the file is stored, and a hash of a file identifier uniquely identifying the file. The generated file keys can be sorted into an ordered list and the ordered list can be logically partitioning into a plurality of logical shards. Each logical shard of the plurality of logical shards can then be mapped to one of the plurality of physical shards.

Systems and methods for sharding based on distributed inverted indexes

Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for generating jobs by applying user-specified rules to events in an action log framework (ALF) stream is disclosed. More specifically, collaboration environments can include features or mechanisms that allow end-users or collaborators to perform a variety of actions such as, for example, file uploads and previews, or collaboration operations such as, for example, task assignment and comments. These actions can be captured or logged by an action log framework and, as described herein, automatically translated into one or more jobs by applying customizable user-specified rules.

Configurable event-based automation architecture for cloud-based collaboration platforms

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Redwood City, CA, United States of America

James Huamonte