US Patent Issued to Box on July 21 for "Virtual file system for cloud-based shared content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,753, issued on July 21, was assigned to Box Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Virtual file system for cloud-based shared content" was invented by Ritik Malhotra (San Jose, Calif.), Tanooj Tanooj (San Diego) and Sri Sarat Ravikumar Tallamraju (Carmichael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server in a cloud-based environment interfaces with storage devices that store shared content accessible by two or more users. Individual items within the shared content are associated with respective object metadata that is also stored in the cloud-based environment. Download requests initiate downloads of instances of a virtual file system module...