US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Sept. 22 for "Selective synchronization of content items in a content management system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,397, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Selective synchronization of content items in a content management system" was invented by Andrew Haven (San Francisco), Isaac Goldberg (San Francisco), Geoffry Song (San Francisco) and Joshua Warner (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can selectively synchronize content based on synchronization settings. In some examples, a client stores a local tree representing a local set of content items associated with an account on a content management system, the local tree including respective local nodes corresponding to the local set of content item...