US Patent Issued to Dropbox on March 31 for "Storage constrained synchronization of shared content items" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,593, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Storage constrained synchronization of shared content items" was invented by Benjamin Zeis Newhouse (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content management system synchronizes content items across client computing systems connected by a network. Each client device has a storage allocation for synchronized shared content items. If the storage allocation for shared content items on a client device is exceeded by the request to add or edit a content item such that it is enlarged, or open a large content item remote to the client device, a client applicat...