ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,687, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).
"Prioritizing content item synchronization based on sharing" was invented by Dwayne Litzenberger (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content items queued for synchronization between a client device and a content management system can be automatically prioritized to improve the sharing process. That is, the content items can be prioritized based on whether a share link has been created to the content item. A share link can enable a user to access the shared content item from a content management system. Content items that have been shared using a share lin...