Dropbox, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kevin Grey

Vinod Valloppillil

Tony Xu

Anish Desai

Robert Paul St Pierre

Royce Ausburn

Zach Johnston

Sergei Vorobev

Narmada Jayasankar

Stephen Eisner

Panagiotis Athanasiou

Haichen Liu

Alexandra Harris

Blake Lucchesi

Waqas Sheikh

Marc David McClure

Adrian Dragomir

Jianping Yin

Marc Mcclure

Robert St Pierre

The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for providing workflow controls to shared content items stored on client devices, and enforcing content item check outs or content item locks for shared content items stored and accessed on client devices. The present technology further includes automatically locking a shared content item that is edited on a client device so that other team members cannot modify the content item. Accordingly, the present technology improves upon existing systems that provide workflow controls such as file check-in and checkout functionality by permitting users to access content items directly from the file system of their client device, and by providing automatic checkout and check-in functionality.

Workflow functions of content management system enforced by client device

Workflow function of content management system enforced by client device

An invalid digital certificate can be saved and subsequently compared to an incoming digital certificate when performing a security check. If a subsequently provided digital certificate does not match the saved digital certificate, an error condition can be generated. Because a digital certificate can be invalid for non-malicious reasons, such technologies can be useful for improving software security.

Securely handling server certificate errors in synchronization communication

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Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Kevin Grey