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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2018
Box, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Anne Elizabeth Hiatt Pearl, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jenica Nash Blechschmidt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Natalia Vinnik, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Kyle Waldrop, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sam Michael Devlin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven Luis Cipolla, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sesh Jalagam, Union City, CA (US);
Box, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems for managing content in a cloud-based service platform. A server in a cloud-based environment is interfaced with storage devices that hold one or more stored objects accessible by two or more users. The stored objects comprise folders and files as well as other objects such as workflow objects that are associated with the folders or the files. The workflow objects comprise workflow metadata that describes a workflow as a set of workflow tasks to be carried out in a progression. Processing of a workflow task and/or carrying out a portion of the progression includes modification of shared content objects. The processing or modification events are detected through workflow events, which in turn cause one or more workflow responses to be generated. Workflow responses comprise updates to the workflow metadata to record progression through the workflow and/or workflow responses comprise updates to any one or more of the stored objects.