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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2015
Applicant:
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Nipunn Koorapati, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Rude, Seattle, WA (US);
Marcio von Muhlen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nils Bunger, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/06 (2013.01); H04L 61/1582 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract
A synchronization protocol for multi-premises hosting of digital content items. In one embodiments, for example, a method, comprising: detecting creation or modification of a content item; determining a content item namespace to which the content item belongs; obtaining an identifier of a block server to which the content item namespace is assigned; and uploading any content item blocks of the content item to the block server that are not already stored at the block server.