US 11,693,880 B2 · Component-based synchronization of digital assets

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a digital asset synchronization system that provides improved local and remote synchronization of digital assets. In particular, the digital asset synchronization system manages digital assets by separating each digital asset into multiple components stored as a set of distributed individual files. Employing individual components for a digital asset rather than single monolithic file enables the digital asset synchronization system to provide safe concurrent access to the digital asset from multiple applications on the same device and across different devices. In addition, using components for a digital asset provides the digital asset synchronization system with the ability to efficiently store and synchronize multiple versions of the digital asset, both locally and remotely.

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Dependent claims

In a digital medium environment for managing digital assets made up of multiple components, a computer-implemented method for accessing the digital assets, the computer-implemented method comprising:

generating, within a digital asset database, a component mapping that maps components making up a digital asset to multiple file locations across a computing device where the components are each stored as independent component files;
detecting a user modification to the digital asset that modifies a first component of the digital asset;
creating a new component file on the computing device comprising a modified first component of the digital asset based on the user modification;
based on the digital asset being modified, replacing the component mapping in the digital asset database with a modified mapping that maps to the new component file;
and
synchronizing the digital asset to a remote computing device based on detecting the user modification by transferring the modified mapping and the new component file to the remote computing device.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing device to:

generate, within a digital asset database, a digital image mapping that maps each layer of a digital image to a separate file across the computing device;
detect a user modification to the digital image that modifies a first layer of the digital image based on detecting the first layer of the digital image being updated at the computing device;
create a new file on the computing device comprising a modified first layer of the digital image based on the user modification;
based on the digital image being modified, replace the digital image mapping in the digital asset database with a modified digital image mapping that maps to the new file;
and
based on detecting the user modification, synchronize the digital image to a remote computing device by transferring the modified digital image mapping and the new file to the remote computing device.

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A system for providing efficient synchronization of digital assets, the system comprising:

one or more memory devices comprising a digital asset database having a mapping that maps components making up a digital asset to multiple file locations across a computing device where the components are each stored as independent component files;
and
at least one processor configured to cause the system to:
detect a user modification to the digital asset that modifies a first component of the digital asset;
create a new component file on the computing device comprising a modified first component of the digital asset based on the user modification;
based on the digital asset being modified, replace the mapping in the digital asset database with a modified mapping that maps to the new component file;
and
synchronize the digital asset to a remote computing device based on detecting the user modification by transferring the modified first component to the remote computing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Component-based synchronization of digital assets

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