Accessing shared content using collaboration attribute partitioning

• US 10,078,618 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2015
• Issued: 09/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Box Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Box Incorporated
• Inventors: Chandrasekaran, Venkat, Huang, Roger, Bercovici, Tamar, Sardesai, Vikram
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Hee Soo
• Application Number:
  US14/952,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20170147527A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,028 Days
• Field of Search: 709215
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/167 using a common memory, e.g. mailbox
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles

Abstract

Systems for managing shared content in a cloud-based service platform. A method commences upon identifying one or more storage devices that store one or more content objects. The storage devices may be partitioned into geographically distant locations. A first partition in one geography is associated with a first set of content objects and a second partition is associated with a second set of content objects. An inviter-collaborator generates a set of outgoing collaboration attributes pertaining to a shared content object from the first partition. The outgoing collaboration attributes are stored on the inviter'"'"'s partition. An invitee-collaborator accepts the invitation and generates a set of incoming collaboration attributes that derive from the set of outgoing collaboration attributes. The set of incoming collaboration attributes are stored on the invitee'"'"'s partition. The invitations can be sent and received through operation of a web application that facilitates offering invitations and acceptance of those invitations.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying one or more storage devices that store one or more content objects, wherein the storage devices comprise at least a first partition associated with a first set of content objects and a second partition associated with a second set of content objects, wherein the first partition is assigned to a first set of users in a first location and the second partition is assigned to a second set of users in a second location, the second location being different from the first location;

generating a first set of outgoing collaboration attributes pertaining to a shared content object from the first partition;

storing, on the first partition, the first set of outgoing collaboration attributes that corresponds to a collaboration invitation issued by at least one of the first set of users to share the shared content object from the first partition in the first location with at least one of a second set of users in the second location;

generating a set of incoming collaboration attributes stored in the second partition that corresponds to the collaboration invitation received by the at least one of the second set of users in the second location, wherein the set of incoming collaboration attributes that is stored in the second partition is derived from the first set of outgoing collaboration attributes in the first partition; and

provisioning access to the shared content object from the first partition in the first location, wherein the shared content object in the first partition is shared to at least one of the second set of users in the second location according to both the set of incoming collaboration attributes local to the second partition and a set of partition mapping attributes, wherein the set of partition mapping attributes relate users to partitions.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising delivering a web application to facilitate at least one of, issuing the outgoing collaboration attributes, or receiving the incoming collaboration attributes, or any combination thereto.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the outgoing collaboration attributes corresponds to an inviter, and the incoming collaboration attributes corresponds with an invitee.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein at least one of, the inviter, or the invitee, comprises an individual user, a group of users, an enterprise, or a segment.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the incoming collaboration attributes are stored in at least one of, a single database table, or a plurality of database tables.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the single database table or the plurality of database tables comprise at least one of, a mutable field, or an immutable field.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of, the outgoing collaboration attributes, or the incoming collaboration attributes, comprises at least one of, a permissions identifier, a user identifier, an enterprise identifier, an item identifier, an item type identifier, or a collaboration identifier.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first partition further serves to store at least one of, a set of content attributes, a set of group attributes, or a set of user attributes, associated with the first set of users.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a location of the second partition is determined by accessing a partition mapping table that relates users to partitions.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a second set of outgoing collaboration attributes pertaining to a shared content object from the first partition.

11. A computer program product, embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when stored in memory and executed by a processor causes the processor to perform a set of acts, the acts comprising:

identifying one or more storage devices that store one or more content objects, wherein the storage devices comprise at least a first partition associated with a first set of content objects and a second partition associated with a second set of content objects, wherein the first partition is assigned to a first set of users in a first location and the second partition is assigned to a second set of users in a second location, the second location being different from the first location;

generating a first set of outgoing collaboration attributes pertaining to a shared content object from the first partition;

storing, on the first partition, the first set of outgoing collaboration attributes that corresponds to a collaboration invitation issued by at least one of the first set of users to share the shared content object from the first partition in the first location with at least one of a second set of users in the second location;

generating a set of incoming collaboration attributes stored in the second partition that corresponds to the collaboration invitation received by the at least one of the second set of users in the second location, wherein the set of incoming collaboration attributes that is stored in the second partition is derived from the first set of outgoing collaboration attributes in the first partition; and

provisioning access to the shared content object from the first partition in the first location, wherein the shared content object in the first partition is shared to at least one of the second set of users in the second location according to both the set of incoming collaboration attributes local to the second partition and a set of partition mapping attributes, wherein the set of partition mapping attributes relate users to partitions.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions which, when stored in memory and executed by a processor causes the processor to perform acts of delivering a web application to facilitate at least one of, issuing the outgoing collaboration attributes, or receiving the incoming collaboration attributes, or any combination thereto.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the outgoing collaboration attributes corresponds to an inviter, and the incoming collaboration attributes corresponds with an invitee.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein at least one of, the inviter, or the invitee, comprises an individual user, a group of users, an enterprise, or a segment.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein at least one of, the outgoing collaboration attributes, or the incoming collaboration attributes, comprises at least one of, a permissions identifier, a user identifier, an enterprise identifier, an item identifier, an item type identifier, or a collaboration identifier.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the first partition further serves to store at least one of, a set of content attributes, a set of group attributes, or a set of user attributes, associated with the first set of users.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein a location of the second partition is determined by accessing a partition mapping table that relates users to partitions.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising instructions which, when stored in memory and executed by a processor causes the processor to perform acts of generating a second set of outgoing collaboration attributes pertaining to a shared content object from the first partition.

19. A system comprising:

a set of one or more storage devices that store one or more content objects, wherein the storage devices comprise at least a first partition associated with a first set of content objects and a second partition associated with a second set of content objects, wherein the first partition is assigned to a first set of users in a first location and the second partition is assigned to a second set of users in a second location, the second location being different from the first location; and

one or more servers that perform acts of,

generating a first set of outgoing collaboration attributes pertaining to a shared content object from the first partition;

storing, on the first partition, the first set of outgoing collaboration attributes that corresponds to a collaboration invitation issued by at least one of the first set of users to share the shared content object from the first partition in the first location with at least one of a second set of users in the second location;

generating a set of incoming collaboration attributes stored in the second partition that corresponds to the collaboration invitation received by the at least one of the second set of users in the second location, wherein the set of incoming collaboration attributes that is stored in the second partition is derived from the first set of outgoing collaboration attributes in the first partition; and

provisioning access to the shared content object from the first partition in the first location, wherein the shared content object in the first partition is shared to at least one of the second set of users in the second location according to both the set of incoming collaboration attributes local to the second partition and a set of partition mapping attributes, wherein the set of partition mapping attributes relate users to partitions.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising a network path to deliver a web application to facilitate at least one of, issuing the outgoing collaboration attributes, or receiving the incoming collaboration attributes, or any combination thereto.