US 10,853,316 B1 · File versioning for content stored in a cloud computing environment

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for storing, accessing, and/or promoting previous versions of changed or overwritten content in a cloud computing or multitenant environment. According to various embodiments, the system may list all the versions, promote a version to be the current version of the node, delete a specific version of the node, and/or rename/move all the node versions. Metadata associated with file versioning may be stored in a dynamic table with concatenated identifiers as a hash key and a content version as another hash key. Accordingly, the method may include securely storing a copy of an object handle instead of copying the entire content at a new location, which reduces storage and resource requirements, as well as improve on security and performance by efficient lookups in the table for read, writes, updates, and deletes for the given node version.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for managing electronic content comprising:

receiving a first request to upload a first version of electronic content, the electronic content transmitted by a first computing device coupled to the one or more computing systems via a network;
creating a node of the first version of the electronic content, the node created in a file version table and including a customer identifier and a node identifier for the node from the first request;
obtaining the first version of the electronic content to be stored at a first storage location;
updating the node identifier to include the first storage location;
detecting a change in the first version of the electronic content;
and
creating, in response to detecting the change, a first entry in a content version table, the first entry including the customer identifier concatenated with the node identifier and a first hash key, the first hash key computed based at least in part on the first storage location.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform a method comprising:

receive a first request to upload a first version of electronic content;
create a node of the first version of the electronic content, the node created in a file version table and including a customer identifier and a node identifier for the node from the first request;
obtain the first version of the electronic content to be stored at a first storage location;
update the node identifier to include the first storage location;
detect a change in the first version of the electronic content;
and
create, in response to detecting the change, a first entry in a content version table, the first entry including the customer identifier concatenated with the node identifier and a first hash key, the first hash key computed based at least in part on the first storage location.

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A system, comprising:

at least one processor;
and
memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
receive a first request to upload a first version of electronic content;
create a node of the first version of the electronic content, the node created in a file version table and including a customer identifier and a node identifier for the node from the first request;
obtain the first version of the electronic content to be stored at a first storage location;
update the node identifier to include the first storage location;
detect a change in the first version of the electronic content;
and
create, in response to detecting the change, a first entry in a content version table, the first entry including the customer identifier concatenated with the node identifier and a first hash key, the first hash key computed based at least in part on the first storage location.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

File versioning for content stored in a cloud computing environment

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File versioning for content stored in a cloud computing environment

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Abstract

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