US Patent Issued to Dropbox on May 20 for "Ignore objects from synchronizing to content management system" (Washington, New Jersey, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,799, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Ignore objects from synchronizing to content management system" was invented by Parker Timmerman (Jersey City, N.J.), Benjamin Blum (Seattle), Tate Song (Austin, Texas), Hongyi Shen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yannis Liapis (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for utilizing an ignore file in a content management system. For example, a process can detect an ignore file stored in a synchronized directory of a client device. The process can access the ignore file and interpret rules stored therein that prohibit any objects ...