US 11,675,864 B2
Proxy links to support legacy links
Aaron Passey, San Rafael, CA (US); Fangzhou Wang, San Francisco, CA (US); Eric Cunningham, San Francisco, CA (US); Royce Ausburn, Mountain View, CA (US); Nicholas Larson, Bagley, MN (US); David Wetterau, San Francisco, CA (US); William Ho, Cupertino, CA (US); and Harrison Ho, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/360,556.
Prior Publication US 2022/0414176 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 16/9558 (2019.01) [G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 16/9566 (2019.01); G06F 21/6209 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a link service, a request to provide a link caller access to an object referred to by a legacy link created by a legacy link service, wherein the request is a result of a proxy link called by the legacy link service;
validating, by the link service, the proxy link and performing, by the link service, at least one link servicing function; and
sending, by the link service, a file system access object pointing to a file system to the link caller of the legacy link, the file system access object including an authorization token, an identification of an authorized entity, and an object ID, wherein the file system access object is effective to retrieve the object from the file system.