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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2017
Applicant:

Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Kleinpeter, Seattle, WA (US);

Tony Xu, Seattle, WA (US);

Alex Sydell, Seattle, WA (US);

Nils Bunger, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Sam Jau, San Francisco, CA (US);

Aaron Staley, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sara Lin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

DROPBOX, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 17/30174 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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