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Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Alexander Embiricos, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matt Broussard, San Francisco, CA (US);

Willy Wu, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jennifer Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);

Igor Kofman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Micah Sivitz, San Francisco, CA (US);

AJ Palkovic, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); H04L 63/083 (2013.01); H04L 63/0861 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed technology relates to a system configured to obtain external credentials for a user account external to a content management system, wherein the external credentials are associated with a content item stored on the content management system. The system receives, from a client device, a client request for data associated with the external user account and transmits, to an external source, a proxy-request for the data associated with the external user account, wherein the proxy-request comprises the external credentials. The system further receives the data associated with the external account and transmits the data associated with the external account to the client device.


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