Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Advanced security protocol for broadcasting and synchronizing shared folders over local area network
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Application No.: US16507266Application Date: 2019-07-10
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Publication No.: US11153290B2Publication Date: 2021-10-19
- Inventor: Anton Mityagin , Dwayne Litzenberger
- Applicant: DROPBOX, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
- Current Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Polsinelli PC
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/08 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F16/176 ; G06F16/178

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for securely broadcasting shared folders from one client device to other client devices and synchronizing the shared folders over a local area network. A first client device, associated with a content management system, generates a secure identifier for a shared folder, using a shared secret key that is associated with the shared folder. The first client device announces the secure identifier over a local area network to other client devices on the local area network including a second client device. The first client device receives a synchronization request for the shared folder from the second client device. After authenticating, using the shared secret key, that the second client device has authorization to access the shared folder, the first client device synchronizes the shared folder with the second client device over the local area network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190334881A1 ADVANCED SECURITY PROTOCOL FOR BROADCASTING AND SYNCHRONIZING SHARED FOLDERS OVER LOCAL AREA NETWORK Public/Granted day:2019-10-31
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