US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Aug. 25 for "Syncing digital content from external applications by utilizing federated connections associated with user accounts" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,853, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Syncing digital content from external applications by utilizing federated connections associated with user accounts" was invented by Kevin Lau (New York), Daniel Tchorni (Regina, Canada) and Andrew Viteri (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for retrieving digital content from external applications through a software connection. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems identify a software connector comprising a plurality of federated connections linking a content ma...