Real time backup system for computer users

• US 10,275,319 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2016
• Issued: 04/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kanevsky, Dimitri, Zlatsin, Alexander
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen, Syling
• Application Number:
  US15/074,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20160203059A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• Field of Search: 707204, 707610, 707611, 707618, 707620, 707626, 707634, 707661, 707674, 707675, 707678, 707683, 707684, 707999202-999204, 714 6, 714 25, 380283
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1446 Point-in-time backing up or restoration of persistent data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1456 Hardware arrangements for backup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1461 Backup scheduling policy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1464 for networked environments
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1471 involving logging of persistent data for recovery
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/80 Database-specific techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/805 Real-time
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99955 Archiving or backup

Abstract

This invention involves tracking and backing all the information that a user generates on its computer devices (including embedded devices) in real time. The local user server records all user actions and gestures (via various means that include TV cameras). All of this information (user actions and saved files in a computer) is then sent to a remote server via the Internet. This remote server has a virtual map of all the embedded devices on a computer that the person uses. The remote server immediately starts to interpret the user'"'"'s actions (including user gestures). In one implementation, the invention stores user actions that are related to data generation (e.g. actions that called some links where data is stored, or executed some programs that generated data). In another variant the remote server generates and downloads the same files that are downloaded on the local user computer devices. For example, if a person begins to download a program, the server may also download the same program on a remote backup server. This way, if the user loses this program, it can be retrieved automatically through a provided server on the Internet. If user'"'"'s files are backed up by regular backup periodically, relevant data that were stored by real time backup servers can be eliminated.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for real-time data back up in a computer network based on user actions, the method comprising:

performing a back up of defined data used by a user in a computer system by storing the defined data in a backup server computer, wherein at least some of the data were obtained by the computer system by the user performing actions to call links to a plurality of websites;

recording the actions performed by the user;

storing said actions by the user in a database of user actions, said database identifying times of the actions, including

using a first column of the database to record the actions that are inputted to control a program by a user to cause the program to perform specified functions to generate specified data, wherein each of the actions fits under a designated class based on the specified function said each of the actions causes the program to perform wherein said actions include commands and data generation,

showing in a second column of the database the class in which each action is placed, and if one or more of the actions fall into a one of the classes in the second column, automatically withdrawing said one or more of the actions from the first column,

using a third column of the database to keep a count of how often a class is formed by similar actions,

using a fourth column of the database to show a tree of the order a group of the actions that took place when the program was being used, and

using a fifth column for placing an index to a file from the tree index;

a translator server interpreting the actions performed by the user to interpret which ones of the actions performed by the user change the database;

the back up server computer using said stored actions of the user from the database of user actions to call the links to the websites to obtain additional data for the back up server computer through the websites; and

removing programs from the backup server under specified conditions.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the removing programs from the backup server computer under specified conditions includes using a time deadline module to determine if the data in the backup server computer includes an old version of one of the programs and a new version of the one of the program.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the removing programs from the backup server computer under specified conditions includes removing the old version of the one of the programs under the specified condition.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said database further identifies devices the actions were performed on.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein said database further identifies forms of media used to control the devices.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said database further identifies the user.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said data base further identifies locations of devices the actions were performed on.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said database further identifies a form of media used to control devices the actions were performed on.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said database further identifies commands used to create new data.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein said actions by the user includes gestures of the user.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

the translator server downloading executables in order for the backup server to keep up with the user'"'"'s actions; and

wherein;

the back up server computer using said stored actions includes sending information from the translator server to the back up server computer, and the back up server deciding what actions to be performed.

12. A computer system for tracking and backing up information that a user generates in a computer network based on user actions, the system comprising:

a local server computer to record user actions;

a backup server computer for performing a back up of defined data used by a user in a computer system by storing the defined data, wherein at least some of the data is obtained by the computer system by the user performing actions to call links to a plurality of websites; and

a translator server for interpreting the actions performed by the user to interpret which ones of the actions performed by the user change the database;

the backup server computer storing said actions by the user in a database of user actions, said database identifying times of the actions, including

using a first column of the database to records the actions that are inputted to control a program by a user to cause the program to perform specified functions to generate specified data, wherein each of the actions fits under a designated class based on the specified function said each of the actions causes the program to perform wherein said actions include commands and data generation,

showing in a second column of the database the class in which each action is placed; and

if one or more of the actions fall into a one of the classes in the second column, automatically withdrawing said one or more of the actions from the first column,

using a third column of the database to keep a count of how often a class is formed by similar actions,

using a fourth column of the database to show a tree of the order a group of the actions that took place when the program was being used, and

using a fifth column of the database for placing an index to a file from the tree index;

the back up server computer using said stored actions of the user from the database of user actions to call the links to the websites to obtain additional data for the back up server computer through the websites; and

the backup server computer removing programs under specified conditions.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the backup server includes a time deadline module to determine if the data in the backup server includes an old version of one of the programs and a new version of the one of the program.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the backup server removes the old version of the one of the programs under the specified condition.

15. The system according to claim 12, wherein said database further identifies devices the actions were performed on.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein said database further identifies forms of media used to control the devices.

17. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method for a real-time data backup in a computer network based on user actions, the method comprising:

performing a regular back up of defined data used by a user in a computer system by storing the defined data in a backup server computer, wherein at least some of the data were obtained by the computer system by the user by performing actions to call links to a plurality of websites;

recording the actions performed by the user;

storing said actions by the user in a database of user actions, said database identifying times of the actions, including

using a first column of the database to records the actions that are inputted to control a program by a user to cause the program to perform specified functions to generate specified data, wherein each of the actions fits under a designated class based on the specified function said each of the actions causes the program to perform wherein said actions include commands and data generation,

showing in a second column of the database the class in which each action is placed; and

if one or more of the actions fall into a one of the classes in the second column, automatically withdrawing said one or more of the actions from the first column,

using a third column of the database to keep a count of how often a class is formed by similar actions,

using a fourth column of the database to show a tree of the order a group of the actions that took place when the program was being used, and

using a fifth column of the database for placing an index to a file from the tree index;

a translator server interpreting the actions performed by the user to interpret which ones of the actions performed by the user change the database;

the back up server computer using said stored actions of the user from the database of user actions to call the links to the websites to obtain additional data for the back up server computer through the websites; and

removing programs from the backup server under specified conditions.

18. The program storage device according to claim 17, wherein the removing programs from the backup server under specified conditions includes using a time deadline module to determine if the data in the backup server includes an old version of one of the programs and a new version of the one of the program.

19. The program storage device according to claim 18, wherein the removing programs from the backup server under specified conditions includes removing the old version of the one of the programs under the specified condition.

20. The program storage device according to claim 17, wherein said database further identifies devices the actions were performed on.