Moveable storage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10430720-B2
Application number	US-201715443437-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2017
Priority date	Feb 21, 2012
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

A system for storing and moving data based on the location of a user or a change in location of a user is described herein. Data associated with a user may be stored at one or more storage devices associated with a location of the user. Some or all of the data associated with the user may be moved to one or more other storage devices if, for example, the user moves to a different location or is expected to move to a different location, so that the user's data may be more efficiently accessed by the user.

First claim

We claim:

1. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
determine an anticipated location change of a user from a first geographical location to a second geographical location; and
after determining the anticipated location change, based on an indication that the user will access data associated with the user during the anticipated location change, and before the user changes location from the first geographical location to the second geographical location, move the data associated with the user from a storage device associated with the first geographical location to a mobile device associated with the user.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to move the data associated with the user by moving the data further based on a location schedule associated with the user.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to move the data associated with the user by moving the data after a determination that a duration of a travel period associated with the anticipated location change satisfies a threshold.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
determine one or more capabilities of the mobile device; and
move, based on the one or more capabilities of the mobile device, second data associated with the user from the storage device to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
after moving the data associated with the user to the mobile device, move the data from the mobile device to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
after determining the anticipated location change and before the user changes location from the first geographical location to the second geographical location, move the data associated with the user from the storage device associated with the first geographical location to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location; and
synchronize the data moved to the mobile device with the data moved to the second storage device to update the data moved to the second storage device.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to move the data associated with the user by moving the data after a determination that the data will be inaccessible during at least a portion of the anticipated location change.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the indication that the user will access the data is based on a duration of a travel period associated with the anticipated location change.

9. A system comprising:
a storage device associated with a first geographical location, the storage device comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of the storage device, cause the storage device to:
store data associated with a user; and

a computing device comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of the computing device, cause the computing device to:
determine an anticipated location change of the user from the first geographical location to a second geographical location; and
after determining the anticipated location change, based on an indication that the user will access the data associated with the user during the anticipated location change, and before the user changes location from the first geographical location to the second geographical location, move the data associated with the user from the storage device associated with the first geographical location to a mobile device associated with the user.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the instructions stored in the memory of the computing device, when executed by the one or more processors of the computing device, cause the computing device to move the data associated with the user by moving the data based on a location schedule associated with the user.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the instructions stored in the memory of the computing device, when executed by the one or more processors of the computing device, cause the computing device to move the data associated with the user by moving the data after a determination that a duration of a travel period associated with the anticipated location change satisfies a threshold.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the instructions stored in the memory of the computing device, when executed by the one or more processors of the computing device, cause the computing device to:
determine one or more capabilities of the mobile device; and
move, based on the one or more capabilities of the mobile device, second data associated with the user from the storage device to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the instructions stored in the memory of the computing device, when executed by the one or more processors of the computing device, cause the computing device to:
after moving the data associated with the user to the mobile device, move the data from the mobile device to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the instructions stored in the memory of the computing device, when executed by the one or more processors of the computing device, cause the computing device to:
after determining the anticipated location change and before the user changes location from the first geographical location to the second geographical location, move the data associated with the user from the storage device associated with the first geographical location to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location; and
synchronize the data moved to the mobile device with the data moved to the second storage device to update the data moved to the second storage device.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the instructions stored in the memory of the computing device, when executed by the one or more processors of the computing device, cause the computing device to move the data associated with the user by moving the data after a determination that the data will be inaccessible during at least a portion of the anticipated location change.

16. The system of claim 9 , wherein the indication that the user will access the data is based on a duration of a travel period associated with the anticipated location change.

17. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
determine an anticipated location change of a user from a first geographical location to a second geographical location; and
after determining the anticipated location change, based on an access indicator associated with the user and with a travel period associated with the anticipated location change, and before the user changes location from the first geographical location to the second geographical location, cause data associated with the user and stor

Assignees

• Comcast Cable Comm Llc

Inventors

• Bevan Frances
• Markowitz David
• Rekstad Michael
• Sim Jae
• Stone Christopher

Classifications

• G06N7/01 Primary

  Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks · CPC title

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  Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor · CPC title

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  Details of further file system functions · CPC title

• G06N5/04

  Inference or reasoning models · CPC title

• G06N7/005 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic