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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Samir Goel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Franck Chastagnol, Woodside, CA (US);

Abhishek Agrawal, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/24 (2019.01); G06F 16/84 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01); G06F 16/21 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2329 (2019.01); G06F 16/134 (2019.01); G06F 16/148 (2019.01); G06F 16/219 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2228 (2019.01); G06F 16/2358 (2019.01); G06F 16/24 (2019.01); G06F 16/24564 (2019.01); G06F 16/313 (2019.01); G06F 16/319 (2019.01); G06F 16/328 (2019.01); G06F 16/84 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multi-user search system with methodology for personal searching. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving a search query; routing the search query to a particular index server based on an identifier of a document namespace; using the identifier of the document namespace at the particular index server to identify a set of matching and authorized indexed documents; and providing an answer to the search query identifying the set of matching and authorized indexed documents.


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