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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2013
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian E. Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Bezek, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jacob D. Potter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew R. Twyman, San Francisco, CA (US);
DROPBOX, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that manages access to data associated with an online storage system. During operation, the system enables synchronization of the data between an electronic device and the online storage system through an application programming interface (API) with an application on the electronic device. Next, the system uses the API to provide a synchronization state of the data to the application, wherein the synchronization state comprises at least one of a download state, an upload state, an idle state, a transfer progress, a cached state, and an error state.