ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,856, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).
"Communication protocols for an online content management system" was invented by Andrew Bortz (San Francisco), Sang Tian (San Francisco), Joshua Kaplan (San Francisco) and Devdatta Akhawe (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a client application at a client device can receive, from a browser application at the client device, a first message including a unique identifier associated with a session of the browser application at a website associated with a content management system. The client application can extract the unique identif...