US Patent Issued to Box on Jan. 20 for "File tree streaming in a virtual file system for cloud-based shared content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,008, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Box Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"File tree streaming in a virtual file system for cloud-based shared content" was invented by Tanooj Luthra (San Diego), Ritik Malhotra (San Jose, Calif.) and Sri Sarat Ravikumar Tallamraju (Carmichael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for fast views of items in file directories or file folders when interacting with a cloud-based service platform. A server in a cloud-based environment interfaces with one or more storage devices to provide storage of shared content accessible by two or more user devices. A file tree request to view the file directory...