US 12,141,518 B2
System and method of adding content items to a content management system
Sunny Rochiramani, San Francisco, CA (US); Vinod Valloppillil, Berkeley, CA (US); Jacob Hurwitz, San Francisco, CA (US); Katherine R. Rudolph, San Francisco, CA (US); Francesco Paduano, San Francisco, CA (US); Eric Sprauve, San Francisco, CA (US); Igor Kofman, San Francisco, CA (US); and Aaron Staley, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to DROPBOX, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/167,660.
Application 18/167,660 is a continuation of application No. 17/646,068, filed on Dec. 27, 2021, granted, now 11,593,549.
Application 17/646,068 is a continuation of application No. 16/119,226, filed on Aug. 31, 2018, granted, now 11,222,162, issued on Jan. 11, 2022.
Application 16/119,226 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/721,158, filed on Sep. 29, 2017, granted, now 10,592,595, issued on Mar. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/573,099, filed on Oct. 16, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0195997 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 40/106 (2020.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 16/26 (2019.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/169 (2020.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 40/106 (2020.01) [G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 16/26 (2019.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/169 (2020.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/0435 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
generating for display, by a content management system, a user interface comprising an area for adding content items to a user account;
receiving, by the content management system, a request to add a new content item to the user account, the request based on receiving an indication of a drag-and-drop operation of the new content item into the area for adding the content items to the user account, the request comprising layout information associated with the new content item, the layout information including metadata specifying a cropped portion of content of the new content item to display on a display of a computing device; and
upon receiving the request:
associating, by the content management system, a content item identifier with the new content item,
adding, by the content management system, the new content item to the user account, and
storing, by the content management system, the layout information in association with the new content item.