UPLOADING ONE OR MORE FILES FROM A SHARED FILE LINK

• US 20140067929A1
• Filed: 08/28/2012
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Inventors: Kirigin, Ivan, Berg, Trevor, Bartelma, Jeffrey Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/596,735
• Publication Number:
  US 20140067929A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

A system and method of sharing files between a user of a first client device and a user of a second client device, where the first and second client devices are operatively coupled to at least one file access server via a network. The method comprises the steps of generating a file-sharing link to a file set based on a request received from a first user. A file set viewing window is opened when a second user activates the file-sharing link. The at least one file sharing access server receives a request to upload one or more files by the second user via the file sharing link, and the at least one file access server receives the uploaded one or more files and stores the files to a location designated by the link.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of sharing files stored on a content management system between a link sharer and a link recipient, the method comprising:

receiving, by a content management system, a request, from the link sharer, to provide a file sharing link for use in sharing a file set;

at least partially in response to receiving the request, providing, by the content management system, a file sharing link to the link sharer, wherein the link sharer can distribute the file sharing link to a link recipient to access the file set;

after the link recipient receives the file sharing link, receiving, by the content management system, an indication that the file sharing link has been activated by the link recipient;

at least partially in response to receiving the indication that the file sharing link has been activated by the link recipient, facilitating, by the content management system, a display of a representation of the file set along with an interactive graphical element that may be activated to allow the link recipient to upload at least one file to the file set, wherein prior to uploading, the at least one file is absent from the file set;

receiving, by the content management system, an indication that the interactive graphical element has been activated by the link recipient; and

at least partially in response to receiving the indication that the interactive graphical element has been activated, facilitating, by the content management system, uploading the at least one file to the file set.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

facilitating the upload of the at least one file to the file set comprises uploading the at least one file to a location designated by the link.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at least partially in response to determining that predetermined permission criteria have been satisfied, automatically adding the at least one file to the file set.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at least partially in response to determining that predetermined permission criteria specified by the link sharer have been satisfied, automatically adding the at least one file to the file set.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the predetermined permission criteria comprise one or more criteria selected from a group consisting of;

(1) the link sharer and the link recipient are members of a common group on a social media web site;

(2) the link recipient is within a list of contacts associated with the link sharer; and

(3) the link sharer has previously manually granted the link recipient permission to directly upload files to the file set.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

at least partially in response to determining that predetermined permission criteria specified by the link sharer have not been satisfied, requesting authorization from the link sharer to save the at least one file to the file set; and

in response to receiving authorization from the link sharer to save the at least one file to the file set, saving the at least one file to the file set.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein when accessed using the file sharing link, the file set is read-only.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the content management system is a synchronized file sharing system.

21. The computer implemented method of claim 2, wherein the location designated by the link is a folder in an account of the link sharer.

3. (canceled)

9. (canceled)

11. A computer implemented method of sharing files stored on a content management system between a link sharer and a link recipient, the method comprising:

receiving, by a content management system, a request, from the link sharer, to provide a file sharing link for use by a link recipient in uploading one or more files to a file set;

at least partially in response to receiving the request, providing, by the content management system, a file sharing link to the link sharer, wherein the link sharer can distribute the file sharing link to a link recipient to upload one or more files to the file set;

after the link recipient receives the file sharing link, receiving, by the content management system, an indication that the file sharing link has been activated by the link recipient;

at least partially in response to receiving the indication that the file sharing link has been activated by the link recipient, providing, by the content management system, a displayed representation of the file set along with an interactive graphical element that may be activated to allow the link recipient to upload the one or more files to the file set, wherein prior to uploading, the one or more files are absent from the file set;

receiving, by the content management system, an indication that the interactive graphical element has been activated by the link recipient; and

at least partially in response to receiving the indication that the interactive graphical element has been activated, facilitating, by the content management system, uploading the one or more files to the file set.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein:

facilitating the upload of the one or more files to the file set comprises uploading the one or more files to a location designated by the link.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

at least partially in response to determining that the predetermined permission criteria have been satisfied, automatically adding the one or more files to the file set.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

at least partially in response to determining that the predetermined permission criteria specified by the link sharer have been satisfied, automatically adding the one or more files to the file set.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

the predetermined permission criteria comprise one or more criteria selected from a group consisting of;

(1) the link sharer and the link recipient are members of a common group on a social media web site;

(2) the link recipient is within a list of contacts associated with the link sharer; and

(3) the link sharer has previously manually granted the link recipient permission to directly upload files to the file set.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

at least partially in response to determining that the predetermined permission criteria have not been satisfied, requesting authorization from the link sharer to save the one or more files to the file set; and

in response to receiving authorization from the link sharer to save the one or more files to the file set, saving the one or more files to the file set.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the content management system is a synchronized file sharing system.

13. (canceled)

18. (canceled)

20. A computer-implemented method of sharing files stored on a content management system between a user of a first client device and a user of a second client device, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, by a content management system, a request to generate a file set sharing link from the first client device, the file set sharing link specific to a file set;

generating, by the content management system, the file set sharing link in response to the first client device request, wherein the file set sharing link is configured to allow the user of the second client device to upload one or more files to a first location designated by the link;

at least partially in response to receiving an indication that the file set sharing link has been activated by the user of the second client device, facilitating, by the content management system, a display of a representation of the file set along with an interactive graphical element that may be activated to allow the user of the second client device to upload at least one file to the file set, wherein prior to uploading, the at least one file is absent from the file set;

receiving, by the content management system, an indication that the interactive graphical element has been activated by the user of the second client device; and

at least partically in response to receiving the indication that the interactive graphical element has been activated, facilitating, by the content management system, uploading the at least one file, wherein the method further comprises at least one of;

automatically adding, by the content management system, the uploaded at least one file to the first location designated by the link;

or

storing, by the content management system, the uploaded at least one file to a second location to allow the user of the first client device to manually approve the addition of the at least one file to the first location designated by the link.