Granted Patent B2

US 12,339,965 · App. 18/147,468 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Inventors: Ishita Arora (San Francisco, CA); Anton Mityagin (San Francisco, CA); Ray Zhang (San Jose, CA); Sam Keller (Millbrae, CA); Stacey Sern (Edison, NJ)

Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.

G06F21/566G06F8/71G06F21/562G06F21/563G06F21/567G06F21/568G06F2221/034

Abstract

Claims (56)

1. A method comprising:

identifying, by a content management system, a change set including change entries describing changes made at a client device to content contained in content items;

analyze, by the content management system, the change set based on one or more malware detection rules;

determining, by the content management system, a number of the change entries in the change set that satisfy at least one of the one or more malware detection rules;

based on the number of the change entries that satisfy at least one of the one or more malware detection rules, initiating, by the content management system, a scan of other change sets associated with the client device to determine whether the client device has malicious software;

during the scan of the other change sets associated with the client device, confirming, by the content management system, that the client device has the malicious software;

identifying, by the content management system, a target content item affected by the malicious software;

identifying, by the content management system, a first change entry in the other change sets corresponding to a first indication of the malicious software affecting the target content item; and

restoring, by the content management system, the target content item to a prior version predating the first change entry.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the content management system is configured to apply the described changes to original versions of the respective content items to generate current versions of the respective content items.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

responsive to confirming that the client device has the malicious software during the scan of the other change sets, suspending synchronization of content items between the content management system and the client device.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein restoring, by the content management system, the target content item to the prior version predating the first change entry comprises:

identifying, by the content management system, a target change set corresponding to the target content item;

identifying, by the content management system, a first subset of change entries predating the first change entry and a second subset of change entries succeeding the first change entry; and

applying, by the content management system, the first subset of change entries to an original version of the target content item to restore the target content item to the prior version of the target content item predating the first change entry.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, by the content management system, that the malicious software has been removed from the client device; and

responsive to determining that the malicious software has been removed, resuming, by the content management system, synchronization of content items between the content management system and the client device.

6. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions, which, when executed by one or more processors, causes a computing system to perform operations comprising:

identifying, by a content management system, a change set including change entries describing changes made at a client device to content contained in content items;

analyzing, by the content management system, the change set based on one or more malware detection rules;

determining, by the content management system, a number of the change entries in the change set that satisfy at least one of the one or more malware detection rules;

based on the number of the change entries that satisfy at least one of the one or more malware detection rules, initiating, by the content management system, a remedial action to remove malicious software from the client device;

during the remedial action to remove malicious software from the client device, confirming, by the content management system, that the client device has the malicious software;

identifying, by the content management system, a target content item affected by the malicious software;

identifying, by the content management system, a first change entry in other change sets corresponding to a first indication of the malicious software affecting the target content item; and

restoring, by the content management system, the target content item to a prior version predating the first change entry.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6 , wherein the content management system is configured to apply the described changes to original versions of the respective content items to generate current versions of the respective content items.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6 , wherein initiating, by the content management system, the remedial action to remove the malicious software from the client device comprises:

initiating a scan of other change sets associated with the client device to determine whether the client device has the malicious software.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6 , wherein restoring, by the content management system, the target content item to the prior version predating the first change entry comprises:

identifying, by the content management system, a target change set corresponding to the target content item;

identifying, by the content management system, a first subset of change entries predating the first change entry and a second subset of change entries succeeding the first change entry; and

applying, by the content management system, the first subset of change entries to an original version of the target content item to restore the target content item to the prior version of the target content item predating the first change entry.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6 , wherein initiating, by the content management system, the remedial action to remove the malicious software from the client device comprises:

suspending synchronization of content items between the content management system and the client device.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10 , further comprising: determining, by the content management system, that the malicious software has been removed from the client device; and

responsive to determining that the malicious software has been removed, resuming, by the content management system, synchronization of content items between the content management system and the client device.

12. A content management system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory having programming instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the content management system to perform operations comprising:

identifying, by the content management system, a change set including change entries describing changes made at a client device to content contained in content items;

analyzing, by the content management system, the change set based on one or more malware detection rules;

determining, by the content management system, a number of the change entries in the change set that satisfy at least one of the one or more malware detection rules; and

based on the number of the change entries that satisfy at least one of the one or more malware detection rules, initiating, by the content management system, a scan of other change sets associated with the client device to determine whether the client device has malicious software;

during the scan of the other change sets associated with the client device, confirming, by the content management system, that the client device has the malicious software;

identifying, by the content management system, a target content item affected by the malicious software;

identifying, by the content management system, a first change entry in the other change sets corresponding to a first indication of the malicious software affecting the target content item; and

restoring, by the content management system, the target content item to a prior version predating the first change entry.

13. The content management system of claim 12 , further comprising:

responsive to confirming that the client device has the malicious software during the scan of the other change sets, suspending synchronization of content items between the content management system and the client device.

14. The content management system of claim 12 , wherein restoring, by the content management system, the target content item to the prior version predating the first change entry comprises:

identifying, by the content management system, a target change set corresponding to the target content item;

identifying, by the content management system, a first subset of change entries predating the first change entry and a second subset of change entries succeeding the first change entry; and

applying, by the content management system, the first subset of change entries to an original version of the target content item to restore the target content item to the prior version of the target content item predating the first change entry.

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