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Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Will Stockwell, San Francisco, CA (US);

Alex Sydell, San Francisco, CA (US);

Tony Grue, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/023 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30902 (2013.01); G06F 3/0237 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for predictively caching digital content in which the system is configured to: (1) receive, from a user of a client device, a request to access at least one particular digital file stored on a remote server; (2) select at least one other digital file to cache locally on the client device based on at least one file-accessing tendency of the user; (3) download the at least one other digital file from the remote server to the client device; and (4) save the downloaded digital file to memory associated with the client device for later access by the user. A file-accessing tendency of the user may include the manner in which the user typically scrolls or otherwise cycles through images or other files. The system may determine the user's file-accessing tendencies based on, for example, the user's location, native language, past content-accessing practices, and/or specified user preferences.


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