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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2017
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Dong-Jae Chung, Redwood City, CA (US);
Anna Geiduschek, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aakash Kambuj, Seattle, WA (US);
Raveesh Nayar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sam Stafford, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject technology relate to ways to avoid file duplication in a cloud storage service. In some aspects, a method of the technology includes steps for retrieving, via a computer network, one or more files from a first memory location, identifying a first signature and a second signature for each of the files, and storing the first signature and the second signature into a duplication reference list. In some aspects, the method further includes steps for analyzing files in a second memory location to identify duplicate files using the duplication reference list. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.