Patent ID: 9575981
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for enabling users to perform file actions at a server hosting a cloud-based service, the method, comprising: receiving a file having a pre-determined extension at a server hosting the cloud-based service, wherein the file is in a compressed file format and the pre-determined extension is appended to an original filename by a client application that communicates with the server hosting the cloud-based service for facilitating the upload of the file to the server hosting the cloud-based service; determining, at the server, that the file represents a folder structure by detecting the pre-determined file extension, wherein the file representative of the folder structure includes a plurality of files or folders received from the client application; storing the file representative of the folder structure at the server hosting the cloud-based service; presenting the file representative of the folder structure as a single file; and enabling file actions on the file representative of the folder structure, wherein the file actions taken on the file representative of the folder structure appear as being performed on the single file; receiving, at the server, a request for renaming the file representative of the folder structure based on a filename extension that includes the pre-determined extension, and in response to the request, preventing the renaming of the file representative of the folder structure.