US 12,425,363 B2
Content management system with integrated email service
Samir Goel, San Francisco, CA (US); Abhishek Agrawal, San Francisco, CA (US); Devdatta Akhawe, Berkeley, CA (US); Renuka Apte, San Francisco, CA (US); Nikhil Bhargava, San Francisco, CA (US); Pranav Piyush, Burlingame, CA (US); Samir Naik, San Francisco, CA (US); and Nicholas Sundin, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/824,551.
Application 17/824,551 is a continuation of application No. 15/474,770, filed on Mar. 30, 2017, granted, now 11,356,396.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/440,679, filed on Dec. 30, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0286417 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 51/08 (2022.01); G06Q 10/107 (2023.01); H04L 51/216 (2022.01); H04L 51/48 (2022.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/08 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 51/216 (2022.05); H04L 51/48 (2022.05); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, at a content management system, an electronic correspondence associated with at least one messaging account;
determining that the at least one messaging account is associated with at least one user account of the content management system, the content management system synchronizing a plurality of content items shared between a plurality of user devices and a plurality of respective user accounts;
automatically updating permissions to a content item to include one or more user accounts associated with respective email addresses of participants of the electronic correspondence sharing the content item;
determining that a first content item attached to the electronic correspondence is a version of a second content item within the at least one user account of the content management system;
in response to determining that the first content item is the version of the second content item, associating the electronic correspondence with the second content item at the content management system and updating permissions associated with the first content item, the second content item, and the at least one messaging account based on the first content item being a version of the second content item;
determining that a modification of the second content item has been synchronized to the content management system; and
providing a notification of the modification of the second content item to participant user accounts identified within the electronic correspondence.