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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2013
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Beausoleil, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Barshow, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Scott Cannon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adam Cue, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven Flory, Los Altos, CA (US);
Steven Kabbes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Steven Long, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Roeder, Oakland, CA (US);
George Milton Underwood, IV, Palo Alto, CA (US);
DROPBOX, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for synchronizing messages between client application instances and a message service provider includes a connection service communicatively coupled to a plurality of client messaging application instances; a first intermediary transfer layer with an inbound message data queue that queues message updates of a client application instance and an outbound message data queue that queues message updates and notifications from a mailbox service layer; a mailbox service layer communicatively coupled to the connection service through the first intermediary transfer layer; a second intermediary transfer layer with an mailbox message data queue that contains queued message data directed at the mailbox service layer and a message service data queue that contains queued message updates directed at a message service layer; and a message service layer configured for message interactions with an outside message service provider.