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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:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2018
Applicant:

Box, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Deepak Khajuria, San Jose, CA (US);

Jeremy Spiegel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Box, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/957 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/168 (2019.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06F 16/9577 (2019.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems and computer program products for content management and collaboration systems. Embodiments address handling remotely-stored preformatted previews of remotely stored content objects for display on a user device without having to store a local copy of the remotely stored content objects to the user device. A user operates a content object viewer that is provided as part of the operating system running on the user device. As provided, the content object viewer includes a graphical user interface for accessing files of the operating system. Using the graphical user interface capabilities of the content object viewer, the user selects a particular one of the remotely stored content objects. Upon such selection, the content object viewer displays a preview of the particular one of the remotely stored content objects without having to have a local copy of the particular one of the remotely stored content objects at the user device.


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