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Managing presence among devices accessing shared and synchronized content

  • US 10,440,110 B2
  • Filed: 11/19/2018
  • Issued: 10/08/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by a content management system from a presence application on a device associated with a user account, presence information describing user interactions with a user interface element associated with a native process of a native application different from and monitored by the presence application, the native process accessing a content item stored on the device and synchronized with the content management system, the presence application configured to simultaneously monitor user interface elements each associated with a different native application of a plurality of native applications, the presence application and the native application both stored at and executed by the device;

    updating a set of presence records corresponding to the content item synchronized with the content management system based on the received presence information, each presence record identifying a presence status and an identifier of a monitored user interface element on the device interacting with the content item synchronized with the content management system;

    determining that a user of the device associated with the user account interacted with the content item synchronized with the content management system via the user interface element based on the set of presence records corresponding to the content item; and

    notifying an additional device that maintains a synchronized local copy of the content item that the user of the device interacted with the content item.

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