US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Nov. 4 for "Identifying relevant information within a document hosting system" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,925, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Identifying relevant information within a document hosting system" was invented by Ho Chi Andrew Chin (New York), Matthew Spitz (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Andrew Werner (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally covers systems and methods that identify relevant information for a user based on an object graph for documents and other files hosted by a document hosting system. In particular, certain embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods generate an object graph comprising interconnected nodes representing relationships among docume...