Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130346450 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND INTEGRATING WITH NATIVE APPLICATIONS ENABLED FOR WEB-BASED STORAGE - A cloud storage system provides remote access to a file associated with the cloud storage system. In response to a request to access the file, the cloud storage system identifies applications available to the request generator and capable of accessing the file, which may include both online web-based applications and applications installed on a device with which the user is accessing the file. The cloud storage system determines an application type of an identified application, and provides file access to the identified application based on the application type. | 12-26-2013 |
20130347070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING FIRST PARTY WIDGETS IN THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS - Methods and systems provide embeddable user interface widgets to third-party applications so that the widgets can be securely embedded in, and securely used from within, the third-party applications. An embeddable widget may be authorized to access a first-party cloud storage system from a third-party application based on the cloud storage system authenticating a request received from the widget. The authentication may be based on an application identifier, an origin identifier, and/or one or more document identifiers received from the third-party application through the embedded widget. The disclosed methods and systems may significantly mitigate security concerns caused by embedding software in third-party sites, such as clickjacking. | 12-26-2013 |
20140280384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANCHORING THIRD PARTY METADATA IN A DOCUMENT - Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to a method of storing metadata for a file on a cloud based storage system. A server may receive a request from a third party application to store metadata for a file. The server may determine a metadata type based on the request. The server may associate the metadata value with an application identifier. The application identifier may identify a third party application. The server may store the metadata value based on the determined metadata type. The stored metadata may be associated with the application identifier and the stored metadata value may include information related to an anchor. The anchor may be an attribute of the file, and anchor can change respectively as the attribute changes. | 09-18-2014 |
20140344247 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING APPLICABLE THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS TO ASSOCIATE WITH A FILE - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for identifying an application for opening a file. A first user input indicative of a file selected by a user is received over a user interface. The selected file has an input file type and is an attachment to an email. Data indicative of the input file type is transmitted over a communications network. A reference list of applications is obtained by combining association requests from application developers to associate respective applications with one or more file types, and a matched list is obtained by removing applications from the reference list, each of the removed applications being associated with a set of one or more file types that each mismatch the input file type. The matched list is displayed over the user interface, which receives a second user input indicative of a selected application from the matched list. | 11-20-2014 |
20150019701 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS OF CHANGES IN A CLOUD-BASED FILE SYSTEM - A cloud-based file system receives a subscription request associated with a networked device and identifying a set of one or more resources of the cloud-based file system and a set of one or more resource modifications. The cloud-based file system determines whether the networked device is authorized to access the resource, and, if so, records a subscription based on the subscription request. In response to a user, an application, or other suitable entity making a modification in the set of modifications to a resource in the set of resources, the cloud-based file system generates a notification to the networked device and to other networked devices with subscriptions that include the modification to the resource. The notification may identify the subscription with which the notification is associated, provide information identifying the modification, or provide other suitable information. | 01-15-2015 |
20150095322 | USER EXPERIENCE AND USER FLOWS FOR THIRD-PARTY APPLICATION RECOMMENDATION IN CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEMS - A cloud computing system identifies when to recommend applications to a user and what recommendations to make. When the user makes a request related to the applications associated with the user, the cloud computing system identifies the subject of the request. The cloud computing system identifies criteria for recommending applications based on the subject, scores applications available to the user based on the identified criteria, and filters applications based on their scores to recommend applications to the user. | 04-02-2015 |
20150193465 | SAVING FILES FROM THIRD-PARTY SYSTEMS DIRECTLY TO A CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM - A method for saving a file stored on a third-party system directly to a cloud storage system includes providing a third-party system with an embeddable user interface for saving a plurality of files stored on the third-party system to a server hosting the cloud storage system. The method further includes receiving at the server a save request from a user on a client computer using the embeddable user interface to select the first file to be stored on the server, where the save request comprises information identifying a first file in the plurality of files. The method further includes authenticating the save request, downloading the first file from the third-party system directly to the server using the information identifying the first file, and saving the first file on the server. | 07-09-2015 |
20150193521 | Methods for Generating an Activity Stream - A method includes storing, at one or more computing devices, a plurality of activity information items each describing an action taken and including a plurality of parameter values each corresponding to one of a plurality of parameter types. The method also includes identifying a filtering metric that corresponds to a specified value for a first parameter type, and generating a filtered set of activity information items that match the specified value. The method also includes identifying a grouping metric that corresponds to a second parameter type from the plurality of parameter types, identifying one or more groups of the filtered activity information items each corresponding to a unique parameter value for the second parameter type. The method also includes outputting, for display, an activity stream including information that represents each activity information item from the filtered set of activity information items arranged according to the one or more groups. | 07-09-2015 |