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Box was granted a patent for prioritizing content-management operations.

What happened

In September 2026 Box patented scheduling technology for content-management platforms, helping cloud services decide which file operations run immediately or later.

Source

patents.google.comSep 22, 2026

US patent US12744785

Prioritizing operations over content objects of a content management system

Abstract

Content object operations over content objects of a content management system are prioritized to be performed immediately, or at a later time. The immediate scheduling of an operation is determined by policies, rules, and/or predictive model outcomes. The determination for later time scheduling is based on analysis of a history of events on content objects. If the content object operation is deemed to be at least potentially delayable to a later time, then a scheduling model is consulted to determine an urgency of performing the content object operation on the content object. The urgency value resulting from consulting the scheduling model is combined with then-current resource availability to determine a timeframe for performance of the content object operation on the content object relative to other entries in a continuously updated list of to-be-performed operations. The performance of the content object operation on the content object is initiated in due course.

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Grant date
Sep 22, 2026
Inventors
3
Tech area
networking / data transmission
Patent number
US12744785

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  • Victor De Vansa VikramaratneInventor
  • Kave EshghiInventor
  • David VengerovInventor

Details

Primary CPC class
H04L 63/102 (Transmission of digital information)
USPTO assignee
Box, Inc.
What the invention does
A system that uses rules, predictions, and past activity to decide whether each file-related task should happen now or be delayed.

Topics and mentions

Tags

  • Intellectual Property
  • Research & Development
  • Cloud
  • Content Management
  • Automation

Technologies named

  • content management
  • cloud computing
  • operations scheduling
  • predictive models

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