Mechanism For Automatic Creation and Access To Favorite Personal Cloud Data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016196274-A1
Application number	US-201514392295-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 23, 2015
Priority date	Dec 24, 2014
Publication date	Jul 7, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Distributed favorite files are stored in a favorite storage device. An agent dynamically monitors usage statistics for a plurality of files, wherein the plurality of files are located on a plurality of devices, designates a first file of the plurality of files as a favorite file based on usage statistics for the first file, and in response to designating the first file as a favorite file, stores a copy of the first file on a favorites storage device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A machine readable medium on which instructions are stored, comprising instructions that when executed cause a machine to:
dynamically monitor usage statistics for a plurality of files, wherein the plurality of files are located on a plurality of devices; designate, based on favorites criteria, a first file of the plurality of files as a favorite file; and in response to designating the first file as a favorite file, storing a copy of the first file on a favorites storage device.

2 . The machine readable medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions that when executed cause the machine to:
periodically update the favorites files designated and stored on the favorites storage device.

3 . The machine readable medium of any of claims 1 - 2 , wherein the instructions to dynamically monitor usage statistics for a plurality of files comprises instructions to identify a usage history of the plurality of files.

4 . The machine readable medium of any of claims 1 - 2 , further comprising instructions that when executed cause the machine to:
designate a second file of the plurality of files as a favorite file based on the favorites criteria and characteristics of the second file; and store a copy of the second file on the favorites storage device, wherein the first file and the second file are originally stored on different storage devices.

5 . The machine readable medium of any of claims 1 - 2 , further comprising instructions that when executed cause the machine to:
designate the favorites storage device based on usage statistics for a plurality of storage devices.

6 . The machine readable medium of any of claims 1 - 2 , wherein the favorites criteria comprises threshold heuristics to determine whether a particular file is likely to be accessed within a predetermined time.

7 . A system for managing distributed data, comprising:
a computer processor; and a storage device coupled to the computer processor comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the computer processor to:
dynamically monitor usage statistics for a plurality of files, wherein the plurality of files are located on a plurality of devices;
designate, based on favorites criteria, a first file of the plurality of files as a favorite file; and
in response to designating the first file as a favorite file, storing a copy of the first file on a favorites storage device.

8 . The system of claim 7 , further comprising instructions that when executed cause the computer processor to:
periodically update the favorites files designated and stored on the favorites storage device.

9 . The system of any of claims 7 - 8 , wherein the instructions to dynamically monitor usage statistics for a plurality of files comprises instructions to identify a usage history of the plurality of files.

10 . The system of any of claims 7 - 8 , further comprising instructions that when executed cause the computer processor to:
designate a second file of the plurality of files as a favorite file based on the favorites criteria and characteristics of the second file; and store a copy of the second file on the favorites storage device, wherein the first file and the second file are originally stored on different storage devices.

11 . The system of any of claims 7 - 8 , further comprising instructions that when executed cause the computer processor to:
designate the favorites storage device based on usage statistics for a plurality of storage devices.

12 . The system of any of claims 7 - 8 , wherein the favorites criteria comprises threshold heuristics to determine whether a particular file is likely to be accessed within a predetermined time.

13 . A method for managing distributed data, comprising:
dynamically monitoring usage statistics for a plurality of files, wherein the plurality of files are located on a plurality of devices; designate, based on favorites criteria, a first file of the plurality of files as a favorite file; and
in response to designating the first file as a favorite file, storing a copy of the first file on a favorites storage device.

14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
periodically update the favorites files designated and stored on the favorites storage device.

15 . The method of any of claims 13 - 14 , wherein dynamically monitoring usage statistics for a plurality of files comprises identifying a usage history of the plurality of files.

16 . The method of any of claims 13 - 14 , further comprising:
designating a second file of the plurality of files as a favorite file based on the favorites criteria and characteristics of the second file; and storing a copy of the second file on the favorites storage device, wherein the first file and the second file are originally stored on different storage devices.

17 . The method of any of claims 13 - 14 , further comprising:
designating a favorites storage device based on usage statistics for a plurality of storage devices.

18 . The method of any of claims 13 - 14 , wherein the favorites criteria comprises threshold heuristics to determine whether a particular file is likely to be accessed within a predetermined time.

19 . A machine readable medium on which instructions are stored, comprising instructions that when executed cause a machine to:
receive an indication that a file is designated as a favorite file from a user device; retrieve the file from a remote location; store the file as a first favorite file on a favorites storage device; re-retrieve the file from the remote location; and update the first favorite file with the re-retrieved file.

20 . The machine readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the instructions further cause the machine to:
receive a request from a user on the user device to retrieve the first favorite file; verify the user has permission to access the first favorite file; and in response to verifying the user has permission, providing access to the first favorite file on the favorites storage device.

21 . The machine readable medium of any of claims 19 - 20 , wherein the file is retrieved from a remote location via an Internet connection, and wherein the favorites storage device is accessible to the user device without an Internet connection.

22 . The machine readable medium of any of claims 19 - 20 , wherein the file is designated as a favorite file in response to usage statistics for the first file.

23 . The machine readable medium of any of claims 19 - 20 , wherein the file is designated as a favorite file in response to a context of the user device.

24 . The machine readable medium of any of claims 19 - 20 , wherein the file is re-retrieved from the remote location based on expiration information for the file.

25 . The machine readable medium of claim 24 , wherein re-retrieving the file from the remote location further comprises resetting expiration information for the file.

Assignees

• Mcafee Inc

Inventors

• Gadde Kranthikumar
• Kumar Mitesh
• Halder Kamlesh
• Vardhan Raj
• Nalluri Srikanth
• Kulkarni Dattatraya
• Nayak Susmita
• Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur

Classifications

• G06F21/6218 Primary

  to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database · CPC title

• G06F17/30091 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30174

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30144

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/1734

  Details of monitoring file system events, e.g. by the use of hooks, filter drivers, logs · CPC title