Dropbox, Inc.

Narmada Jayasankar

Vinod Valloppillil

Tony Xu

Royce Ausburn

Zach Johnston

Sergei Vorobev

Kevin Grey

Stephen Eisner

Panagiotis Athanasiou

Haichen Liu

Alexandra Harris

Blake Lucchesi

Waqas Sheikh

Jonathan Chien

Kaitlin Hanss

Águeda Anaid Chacón

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

The present technology pertains to a technique for responding to a crash of an application. The technique includes detecting a crash of an application running on the computing system, selecting a crash response for the application based on engagement status information for a flow profile comprising one or more user signals associated with the application, and implementing the instructions of the crash response.

User engagement aware auto-restart

Workflow function of content management system enforced by client device

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Narmada Jayasankar