Information management of data associated with multiple cloud services

• US 10,075,527 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2017
• Issued: 09/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Vijayan, Manoj Kumar, Chen, Ho-Chi, Attarde, Deepak Raghunath, Joshi, Hetalkumar N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Teshome
• Application Number:
  US15/400,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20170126807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: 726 1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/128 Details of file system snapshots on the file-level, e.g. snapshot creation, administration, deletion use of snapshots for error detection or correction G06F11/14, G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1748 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 Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/60 Protecting data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

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.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium carrying instructions for managing a file associated with social networking services, comprising:

providing a user interface to enable a user to identify or access multiple accounts provided by different social networking services,

wherein the social networking services provide access to a file associated with the user;

creating a copy of the file for primary storage;

receiving a set of criteria and rules for an information management policy for the multiple accounts via the user interface,

wherein the information management policy identifies at least one type of file and a data storage policy for managing copies of that type of file; and

storing the copy of the file in accordance with the information management policy in secondary storage.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising:

authenticating access for the user to the accounts by receiving an identifier and a password for the user via the user interface; and

automatically requesting an additional copy of the file in accordance with a data request frequency defined by the information management policy.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the type of file is a digital photo, a digital video, a social networking post, 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 file;

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.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising:

performing information management operations on the copy of the file in accordance with the information management policy, wherein the information management operations include;

deduplicating the copy of the file; and

transferring the copy of the file from the hosted service to another hosted service to make the copy of the file 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 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 each of the accounts to enable the user and an information management system to readily identify the account as a source of files for the user.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the received set of criteria and rules determine which file types an information management system requests and receives from each of the social networking 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 file is stored within an 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 social networking 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 a computing device that are associated with each of the multiple social networking services and prepopulating the user interface with a list of the social networking 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 accounts that conflict with the administrator information management policy, in accordance with the administrator information management policy.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim further comprising:

generating a preview of at least part of the content of the copy of the file; and

distributing the preview to other computing devices in accordance with the information management policy for the accounts to enable the user to view and manipulate the preview while the user operates the other computing devices.

12. A system for providing information management of data from social networking services, comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory, coupled to the at least one processor, and carrying instructions to be executed by the at least one processor, wherein the instructions are for;

receiving identification or access information for each of one or more accounts provided by one or more social networking services,

wherein the one or more social networking services provide access to data objects associated with a user;

receiving a set of criteria and rules for defining information management policies for the one or more 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; and

requesting data associated with one of the accounts from one of the social networking services in accordance with the received the set of criteria and rues for defining the information management policies.

13. The system of claim 12,

wherein the received set of criteria and rues for defining information management policies mandate requesting only specified types of data from one of the social networking services, or

wherein the received set of criteria and rules for defining information management policies mandate a frequency for requesting data from one of the social networking services.

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 the information management policies include an administrator-based policy that overrides a user-based policy.

16. A method of managing social networking data, comprising:

receiving identification or access information for one or more accounts provided by one or more social networking services;

associating one or more accounts with a user,

wherein the one or more social networking services provide access to data objects associated with the user;

associating the one or more 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 social networking services via the multiple accounts in accordance with the information management policy for the multiple accounts.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

generating previews of at least part of the content of the data objects; and

distributing the previews to computing devices associated with an information management system to enable the user to view and manipulate the previews while the user operates other computing devices.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

performing information management operations on the received data objects; and

transferring the data objects to a social networking service unassociated with the accounts to make the copies of the data objects available via a public network through the social networking service.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

performing information management operations upon the data objects received from the social networking services in accordance with the information management policies for the accounts, wherein the information management operations include;

indexing the received data objects to associate the received data objects with the user; and

providing index information related to the received data objects to a computing device.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the information management system is unaffiliated with and not controlled by entities that control or manage the social networking services, and wherein one of the social networking services is accessible via a computing device.