Patent ID: 9426216
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving an indication that a first user accepted an invitation to join a team; wherein a second user is already a member of the team when the indication is received; wherein the second user is not the first user; in response to receiving the indication that the first user accepted the invitation to join the team, performing team joining operations comprising (a), (b) and (c); wherein the team joining operation (a) comprises joining the first user to the team of which the second user is already a member; wherein the team joining operation (b) comprises determining whether a team shared folder of the team is active or inactive as configured by the second user; wherein determining whether a team shared folder of the team is active or inactive comprises examining metadata associated with the team shared folder that specifies whether the team shared folder is active or inactive; wherein the team joining operation (a) comprises joining the first user to the team irrespective of whether the team shared folder is active or inactive; and wherein the team joining operation (c) comprises automatically causing, based on a first copy of the team shared folder stored at one or more server computing devices, a separate second copy of the team shared folder to be stored at a client computing device of the first user, only if the metadata associated with the team shared folder specifies that the team shared folder is active; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.