Information management of data associated with multiple cloud services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016100013-A1
Application number	US-201514968345-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 14, 2015
Priority date	Mar 30, 2012
Publication date	Apr 7, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method and system for providing information management of data from hosted services receives information management policies for a hosted account of a hosted service, requests data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, receives data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, and provides a preview version of the received data to a computing device. In some examples, the system indexes the received data to associate the received data with a user of an information management system, and/or provides index information related to the received data to the computing device.

First claim

I/we claim:

1 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium carrying instructions for managing a data object from hosted services, comprising:
providing a user interface to enable a user to identify or access multiple hosted accounts provided by different hosted services,
wherein the hosted services provide access to a data object associated with the user;
creating a copy of the data object for primary storage; storing the copy in accordance with an information management policy in secondary storage; receiving a set of criteria and rules for the information management policy for the multiple hosted accounts via the user interface,
wherein the set of criteria and rules for the information management policy are at least partially received via the user interface, and
wherein the information management policy identifies at least one type of data object and a data storage policy for managing copies of that type of data object; and
requesting a copy of a data object from one of the hosted services via one of the multiple hosted accounts in accordance with the information management policy for the multiple hosted accounts.

2 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
authenticating access for the user to the hosted accounts by receiving an identifier and a password for the user via the user interface; and automatically requesting an additional copy of the data object in accordance with a data request frequency defined by the information management policy, wherein at least one of the hosted services is a social networking service.

3 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the type of data object is a digital photo, digital video, or a document.

4 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a preview of at least part of the content of the copy of the data object or objects; performing information management operations on the generated preview; and providing the preview to a computing device to enable the computing device to display the preview.

5 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a preview of at least part of the content of the copy of the data object; and distributing the preview to other computing devices in accordance with the information management policy for the hosted accounts to enable the user to view and manipulate the preview while the user operates the other computing devices.

6 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
performing information management operations on the copy of the data object in accordance with the information management policy, wherein the information management operations include:
deduplicating the copy of the data object; and
transferring the copy of the data object from the hosted service to another hosted service to make the copy of the data object available through the other hosted service.

7 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 ,
wherein the user interface includes a policy dropdown menu to enable the user to associate, via a single menu choice, each of the multiple hosted accounts with one of a number of predetermined information management policies, or wherein the user interface includes an alias field to receive a descriptive alias from the user for the hosted account to enable the user and the information management system to readily identify the hosted account as a source of data objects for the user.

8 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the received definitions determine which data object types the information management system requests and receives from each of the hosted services.

9 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 ,
wherein the received set of criteria and rules for the information management policy determine where the copy of the data object is stored within the information management system, wherein the user is one of multiple users associated with an organization, wherein the organization is an employer of the multiple users, and wherein the hosted services are hosted by third party companies unrelated to the organization.

10 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
automatically detecting applications installed on the computing device that are associated with each of the multiple hosted services and prepopulating the user interface with a list of the hosted services associated with the applications.

11 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an administrator information management policy; and overriding aspects of the information management policy for the hosted accounts that conflict with the administrator information management policy, in accordance with the administrator information management policy.

12 . A system for providing information management of data from hosted services, comprising:
at least one processor; a means for receiving identification or access information for each of one or more hosted accounts provided by one or more hosted services,
wherein the one or more hosted services provide access to data objects associated with a user;
a means for receiving a set of criteria and rules for defining information management policies for the one or more hosted accounts,
wherein the information management policies identify at least one type of data object and a data storage policy for managing copies of that type of data object;
a means for requesting data associated with one of the hosted accounts from one of the hosted services in accordance with the received the set of criteria and rules for defining information management policies; and a means for receiving data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service.

13 . The system of claim 12 ,
wherein the received the received the set of criteria and rules for defining information management policies mandate requesting only specified types of data from the hosted service, and wherein the hosted service is a digital media sharing service, or wherein the received the set of criteria and rules for defining information management policies mandate a frequency for requesting data from the hosted service, and wherein the hosted service is a social networking service.

14 . The system of claim 12 , further comprising:
a means for providing a preview version of the received data to a computing device, wherein the received the set of criteria and rules for defining information management policies include a data distribution policy.

15 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the received set of criteria and rules for defining information management policies include an administrator-based policy that overrides a user-based policy.

16 . A method of managing hosted data, comprising:
receiving identification or access information for one or more hosted accounts provided by one or more hosted services; associating one or more hosted accounts with a user,
wherein the one or more hosted services provide access to data objects associated with the user;
associating the one or more hosted accounts with an information management policy,
wherein the information management policy includes a set of criteria and rules for defining information management policies to identify at least one type of data object and a data storage policy for managing copies of that type of data object; and
requesting copies of data objects from the hosted services via the multiple

Assignees

• Commvault Systems Inc

Inventors

• Vijayan Manoj Kumar
• Chen Ho-Chi
• Attarde Deepak Raghunath
• Joshi Hetalkumar N

Classifications

• G06F21/604 Primary

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• G06F16/1748

  De-duplication implemented within the file system, e.g. based on file segments (de-duplication techniques in storage systems for the management of data blocks G06F3/0641) · CPC title

• G06F16/21

  Design, administration or maintenance of databases · CPC title

• G06F16/128

  Details of file system snapshots on the file-level, e.g. snapshot creation, administration, deletion (error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operations or in hardware G06F11/14, G06F11/16) · CPC title

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  Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes · CPC title