Systems and methods for providing a user with a set of interactivity features locally on a user device

• US 10,235,444 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2016
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Inventors: Poletto, Stephen, Belknap, Peter, Kleinpeter, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tuan S
• Application Number:
  US15/174,789
• Publication Number:
  US 20160314187A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,016 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/113 Details of archiving lifecycle management in storage systems G06F3/0649; backup systems G06F11/1446
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1085 involving dynamic management of active down- or uploading connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Providing a user with an interactive user interface that may fully enable interactions regardless of connectivity status may be provided. In some embodiments, one or more content items may be selected by a user of the user devices and may be queued for upload to a content management system. The content items may be organized into one or more collections of content items with other content items already stored in a user account on the content management system, such as images having similar geo-temporal characteristics. A set of interactivity features may be available to the user for interacting with the queued content item. This may provide the user with the seamless feeling as if the content items have been uploaded to the content management system and the user may be interacting with the content items on the content management system, even if the upload has not been completed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a content management system, metadata associated with a content item queued for upload to the content management system from a client device;

generating, by at least one processor, categorization data for the content item based on the received metadata associated with the content item;

receiving the content item via an upload from the client device; and

prior to completing the upload of the content item from the client device, providing the categorization data for the content item to the client device.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising initiating, at the content management system, the upload of the content item from the client device in response to detecting a threshold connectivity between the content management system and the client device.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein receiving the metadata associated with the content item comprises uploading the metadata prior to detecting the threshold connectivity between the content management system and the client device.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving metadata associated with the content item comprises receiving, prior to completing the upload of the content item from the client device, interactivity data associated with one or more user interactions with the content item.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein generating categorization data for the content item comprises generating an identifier for the content item that categorizes the content item as similar to one or more additional content items previously uploaded to the content management system.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein generating the categorization data further comprises generating categorization data for one or more additional content items previously uploaded to the content management system prior to completing the upload of the content item.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the metadata comprises receiving the metadata in response to detecting a first threshold connectivity.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein receiving the content item comprises receiving the content item in response to detecting a second threshold connectivity that is higher than the first threshold connectivity.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the content item comprises one or more of a digital image, a digital video, a text document, a digital audio file, or a collection of digital images.

10. A method comprising:

providing, to a client device, access to a user account on a content management system over a communications network;

receiving, from the client device, a request for an image from the user account on the content management system;

providing, via a first download for display on the client device, a first version of the image from the account on the content management system, the first version of the image comprising a low resolution version of the image;

providing, via a second download for display on the client device, a second version of the image from the account on the content management system, the second version of the image comprising a high resolution version of the image;

receiving, from the client device, data corresponding to one or more user interactions with the displayed first version of the image on the client device prior to completing the second download; and

upon completing the second download, causing the client device to display the second version in a way that reflects the one or more user interactions.

11. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein providing the second version of the image to the client device comprises performing the second download in the background of the client device.

12. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein providing the second version of the image to the client device comprises performing the second download in response to detecting a level of connectivity between the content management system and the client device that exceeds a threshold connectivity.

13. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein providing the first version of the image to the client device comprises performing the first download in response to detecting that a level of connectivity between the content management system and the client device is below the threshold connectivity.

14. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein receiving data corresponding to the one or more user interactions comprises receiving one or more data packets that each represent an interaction performed on the client device with respect to the first version of the image.

15. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising:

generating categorization data based on the one or more user interactions; and

prior to initiating the second download of the second version of the image, providing the categorization data to the client device.

16. The method as recited by claim 10, wherein the one or more user interactions with the displayed first version of the image on the client device comprises an interaction of a user to share the image with one or more other users.

17. The method as recited by claim 16, further comprising:

in response to the interaction to share the image, sharing the first version of the image by placing the first version of the image in a collection of previously shared images accessible to the one or more other users; and

replacing the first version of the image with the second version of the image within the collection of previously shared images.

18. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory containing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to;

receive, at a content management system, metadata associated with a content item queued for upload to the content management system from a client device;

generate categorization data for the content item based on the received metadata associated with the content item;

receive the content item via an upload from the client device; and

prior to completing the upload of the content item from the client device, provide the categorization data for the content item to the client device.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the instructions further cause the system to initiate the upload of the content item from the client device in response to detecting that a connectivity between the content management system and the client device exceeds a threshold connectivity.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein receiving the metadata associated with the content item comprises uploading the metadata prior to detecting that the connectivity between the content management system and the client device exceeds the threshold connectivity.