Patent ID: 11899623
Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, from an application associated with a first system that is separate from a content management system, an application programming interface (API) call generated during user activity within the application, the user activity comprising a user input to be used within the first system, the API call specifying content item search criteria generated based on the user input to be used within the first system;
based on the content item search criteria specified in the API call, performing a lookup in a user-specific content item index within the content management system associated with a user account to identify at least one content item that satisfies the content item search criteria generated based on the user activity, wherein the user-specific content item index references content items associated with the user account; and
providing, to the application, a suggestion to access the at least one content item from the content management system using the application associated with the first system.