US 12,136,065 B2
Methods and systems for making file requests in a collaboration environment
Virender Gupta, Morganville, NJ (US); and Ravneet Uberoi, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Box, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed by Box, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/162,282.
Application 17/162,282 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/944,529, filed on Jul. 31, 2020, granted, now 11,836,196.
Prior Publication US 2022/0036312 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/907 (2019.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06Q 10/101 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/101 (2013.01) [G06F 16/907 (2019.01); G06F 21/6254 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for requesting and obtaining one or more content items for a workspace of a collaboration environment, the method comprising:
generating, by a server of a cloud-based collaboration environment, a content request identifying the one or more content items and metadata for the one or more content items requested from a submitter, wherein the one or more content items and metadata for the one or more content items are not available on the cloud-based collaboration environment when the content request is generated, and wherein the one or more content items and metadata for the one or more content items are requested to be uploaded to the server of the cloud-based collaboration environment from a client computing device associated with the submitter;
providing, by the server of the cloud-based collaboration environment, the generated content request to the client computing device associated with the submitter;
determining, by the server of the cloud-based collaboration environment, whether the one or more content items may be submitted anonymously; and
in response to determining the one or more content items may be submitted anonymously, obtaining, by the server of the cloud-based collaboration environment, the one or more content items and the requested metadata for the one or more content items from the client computing device associated with the submitter in response to the provided request while maintaining the anonymity of the submitter.