Dropbox, Inc.

Tony Xu

Nils Milton Bunger

Thomas Kleinpeter

Aaron Staley

Sam Jau

Vinod Valloppillil

Alex Sydell

Akos Albert

Conor Woods

Zach Johnston

Sergei Vorobev

Narmada Jayasankar

Stephen Eisner

Alexandra Harris

Blake Lucchesi

Panagiotis Athanasiou

Sara Lin

Haichen Liu

Yi Zhang

Royce Ausburn

Kevin Grey

Waqas Sheikh

Shi Cong

ChokSheak Lau

The present technology provides a browser extension that can recognize downloadable objects on a webpage and provides functionality that makes it easier and more efficient to download the downloadable objects to a location in a content management system. For example the present technology can analyze a document object model of a webpage to find attributes indicating a URL is associated with a downloadable object.

Identifying downloadable objects in markup language

The present technology pertains to a organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.

Forced mount points / duplicate mounts

Synchronized organization directory with team member folders

The present technology provides an interface and system for generating a previous version of a directory structure that can be useful in the restoration of a directory or file. The system, methods and non-transitory computer-readable storage media include receiving a request for a previous version of a directory structure at an indicated date, querying a content management system for placeholder content items associated with the previous version of the directory structure at the indicated date, receiving the placeholder content items, and generating a read-only copy of at least a portion of the previous version of the directory structure at the indicated date based on the placeholder content items, wherein the read-only copy of the directory structure is separate from the directory structure at a current date.

Accessing historical content items of a content management system through placeholders

Traversal rights

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.

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Tony Xu