US 12,332,949 B1
Generating a hybrid search index for unified search
Devin Mancuso, San Francisco, CA (US); Alan Chu, Arvada, CO (US); Brett Bergeron, Portland, OR (US); Maor Bar Asher, New York, NY (US); Ryan YeePin Yheng, Milpitas, CA (US); and Shweta Kode, Sammamish, WA (US)
Assigned to Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 26, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/815,606.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/951 (2019.01) [G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
identifying a first plurality of content items stored at a content management system and a second plurality of content items stored at external network locations associated with external computer applications, wherein the second plurality of content items is associated with the content management system via software connectors;
determining, for a client device accessing the first plurality of content items and the second plurality of content items, world state data defining:
device metrics exhibited by the client device while accessing the first plurality of content items and the second plurality of content items; and
environmental metrics exhibited by the client device while accessing the first plurality of content items and the second plurality of content items;
generating searchable data from the world state data for the first plurality of content items and the second plurality of content items; and
generating a hybrid search index comprising the searchable data, the first plurality of content items, and the second plurality of content items.