Patent ID: 9501579
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating access to content, comprising: responsive to receiving, at an online content management system, a content item from a user, and the online content management system and one or more client devices are configured to maintain a synchronized copy of the content item; storing a particular synchronized copy of the content item at a location within the online content management system; creating a mapping of an identifier of the content item to the location, wherein the mapping comprises an entry within a table of a relational database of the online content management system; tracking the content item at the online content management system by updating the mapping based on a change to at least one of the particular synchronized copy of the content item or another synchronized copy of the content item maintained on one of the client devices; and using the identifier, stored on an electronic device, to provide a link to the content item, wherein the link enables access to the content item from the electronic device independently of the location and wherein the location comprises a file path within a data store of the online content management system; wherein tracking the content item at the online content management system comprises: