System and method for providing comprehensive backup of modular mobile devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10394659-B2
Application number	US-201715405659-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2017
Priority date	Jan 13, 2016
Publication date	Aug 27, 2019
Grant date	Aug 27, 2019

Abstract

A system and method for backup and recovery of user mobile device modules, settings and configurations. An example system includes a modular mobile device and a number of interconnected modules that can be connected to the mobile device. The device includes memory that stores configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the modules. In operation, a backup software utility monitors the configuration and setting parameters to detect additions and modifications and the transmits the detected additions and modifications to remote data storage to generate a data backup indicating a current state of the configuration and setting parameters. As a result, the modular mobile device can always return to a previous state for each module if it is replaced or the software is reinstalled, for example.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for backing up device data from a modular mobile device, the system comprising:
a plurality of interconnected hardware modules that are configured to be attachable and removable from the modular mobile device;
electronic memory configured to store configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of interconnected hardware modules; and
a processor configured to:
monitor the configuration and
setting parameters to detect additions and modifications to the configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of interconnected hardware modules by comparing previous configurations setting parameters stored in the memory of the modular mobile device with the detected additions and modifications;
transmit the detected additions and modifications to a data storage device; and
execute a data backup indicating a current state of the configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of hardware modules.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
access, from the data storage device, the data backup when at least one module of the plurality of interconnected modules is replaced with a new module or software installed on the at least one module is reinstalled, and
use the accessed data backup to set the configuration and setting parameters of the new module or the at least one module have the reinstalled software.

3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the data storage device is a database hosted by a remote cloud computing service.

4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
monitor each of the plurality of interconnected hardware modules by separate monitoring agents to obtain configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of interconnected hardware modules;
compare the obtained configuration and setting parameters with previous configurations and setting parameters stored in the memory of the modular mobile device; and
transmit to the data storage device any detected changes to the obtained configuration and setting parameters based on results of the comparison.

5. The system according to claim 4 , wherein the processor creates a new separate monitoring agent when a new interconnected module is added to the plurality of interconnected modules.

6. The system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the plurality of interconnected hardware modules is the memory that is connectable to the modular mobile device to store the configuration and setting parameters.

7. The system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the plurality of interconnected modules is wirelessly connected to a computing device including the processor and the memory.

8. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of interconnected modules each comprise one of an antenna, an audio or video jack, a battery, a communication module, a camera, a GPS module, a sensor, electronic memory, a display screen, a projector device, a security module, an image processor, a graphics accelerator, a hardware neural and machine learning accelerator, a Quantum processor, and a timing device.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to update and store, in the data storage device, configurations and setting parameters of a modular device that includes the plurality of interconnected modules.

10. A method for providing a backup of a plurality of hardware modules interconnected to a modular mobile device, the method comprising:
storing configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of hardware modules interconnected to the modular mobile device;
monitoring, by a processor,
the configuration and setting
parameters to detect additions and modifications to the configuration and setting

parameters associated with each of the plurality of hardware modules interconnected to the modular mobile device by comparing previous configurations setting parameters stored in the memory of the modular mobile device with the detected additions and modifications, when one of the plurality of hardware modules is attached or removed from the modular mobile device;
transmitting, by the processor, the configuration and setting parameters including the detected additions and modifications thereto to data storage device; and
executing a data backup indicating a current state of the configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of hardware modules.

11. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
accessing, from the data storage device, the data backup when at least one module of the plurality of modules is replaced with a new module or software installed on the at least one module is reinstalled; and
using, by the processor, the accessed data backup to set the configuration and setting parameters of the new module or the at least one module have the reinstalled software.

12. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the data storage device is a database hosted by a remote cloud computing service.

13. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
monitoring each of the plurality of hardware modules by separate monitoring agents to obtain configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of hardware modules;
comparing, by the processor, the obtained configuration and setting parameters with previous configurations and setting parameters stored in memory of the modular mobile device; and
transmitting, to the data storage device, any detected changes to the obtained configuration and setting parameters based on results of the comparison.

14. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising creating a new separate monitoring agent when a new interconnected module is added to the plurality of interconnected modules.

15. The method according to claim 10 , wherein at least one of the plurality of modules is wirelessly interconnected to the computing device.

16. The method of claim 10 , further comprising updating and storing, in the data storage device, configurations and setting parameters of a modular device that includes the plurality of interconnected modules.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions for providing a backup of a plurality of hardware modules interconnected to a modular mobile device, including instructions for:
storing configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of hardware modules interconnected to the modular mobile device;
monitoring the configuration and setting
parameters to detect additions and modifications to the configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of hardware modules interconnected to the modular mobile device by comparing previous configurations setting parameters stored in the memory of the modular mobile device with the detected additions and modifications, when one of the plurality of hardware modules is attached or removed from the modular mobile device;
transmitting the configuration and setting parameters including the detected additions and modifications thereto to data storage device; and
executing a data backup indicating a current state of the configuration and setting parameters associated with each of the plurality of hardware modules.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17 , further including instructions for:
accessing, from the data storage devi

Assignees

• Acronis Int Gmbh

Inventors

• Tormasov Alexander G
• Protassov Stanislav S
• Beloussov Serguei M
• Shmulevich Mark

Classifications

• H04W8/30

  Network data restoration; {Network data reliability; Network data fault tolerance} · CPC title

• G06F11/1451 Primary

  by selection of backup contents · CPC title