IDENTIFICATION AND HANDLING OF ITEMS TO BE IGNORED FOR SYNCHRONIZATION WITH A CLOUD-BASED PLATFORM BY A SYNCHRONIZATION CLIENT

• US 20150339113A1
• Filed: 05/13/2014
• Published: 11/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Box Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Box Incorporated
• Inventors: Parmar, Kunal, Sawyer, Dave, Smith, Benjamin Campbell, Dorman, Griffin, Vandenberg, Eric, Jourda, Florian
• Granted Patent: US 10,846,074 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/166 at the transport layer
• 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: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

Systems and methods to automatically upgrade, or update a synchronization client to a cloud-based platform are provided. The automatic upgrading can be provided to a personal or an enterprise-level synchronization client. The synchronization client is implemented in a manner that is silent, secure and fault tolerant. In one embodiment, the disclosed technology includes an executable process to download the update, verify the contents, and apply the update. The contents can be verified by checking the certificate on any binary. The systems and methods further include identification and handling of items to be ignored by the synchronization client for synchronization with a cloud-based platform. In some embodiments, files and folders which typically should not be synchronized are identified and removed from the synchronization process in an effective manner.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of facilitating upgrades to a synchronizations client in a cloud-based environment, the method comprising:

checking for updates on the cloud-based platform; and

storing the updates;

verifying the updates; and

installing the updates.

2. A computer-implemented method of identifying ignored files in synchronizations client in a cloud-based environment, the method comprising:

applying filters to check for file types; and

removing ignored files;

updating modified files; and

synchronizing the directory.