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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2015
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Nipunn Koorapati, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Rude, Seattle, WA (US);
Marcio von Muhlen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nils Bunger, Palo Alto, CA (US);
DROPBOX, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A synchronization protocol for multi-premises hosting of digital content items. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises the operations of: detecting creation or modification of a content item; determining a content item namespace to which the content item belongs; obtaining a plurality of identifiers of a plurality of block servers to which the content item namespace is assigned; making a selection of one of the plurality of block servers as a target block server; and uploading any content item blocks of the content item to the target block server that are not already stored at the target block server.