US Patent Issued to Dropbox on May 20 for "Object management system for efficient content item management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,813, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Object management system for efficient content item management" was invented by Anup Chenthamarakshan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam Faulkner (San Francisco), Ping Hu (San Francisco) and Alexander Sosa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object management system (OMS) receives a plurality of objects to be stored. The OMS identifies a subset of objects associated with a same time period and a same namespace from the plurality of objects and generates a batch object comprising the subset of objects. The OMS issues a write request to store the batch object ...