US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Jan. 20 for "Data ingestion utilizing a coordinator and connectors" (California, Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,371, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data ingestion utilizing a coordinator and connectors" was invented by Aniruddh Rao (Sammamish, Wash.), Ryan Morlok (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) and Jason Terk (San Francisco).

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 ingesting a dataset from a computer application that is external to a content management system. In particular, the disclosed systems can perform an ingestion process comprising a plurality of transfer runs by linking a content management system to the computer app...