Backup System and Backup Method

• US 20070282925A1
• Filed: 03/24/2005
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Softbank BB Corporation (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Softbank BB Corporation (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Son, Masayoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/594,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20070282925A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1461 Backup scheduling policy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1464 for networked environments
• 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: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42661 for reading from or writing on a magnetic storage medium, e.g. hard disk drive
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A backup system has a hard disk 16 connected to a terminal device 1 and accumulating data, a backup server 43 connected to the terminal device 1 through an IP network 3, a monitoring section 15e for monitoring on the terminal device 1 side a data occupancy ratio in the hard disk 16, an extracting section 15b for extracting data depending on an data attribute when the data occupancy ratio is greater than a predetermined level, an uploading section 15a for transmitting the extracted data to the backup server, a difference producing section 43b provided on the backup server 43 side and producing data of a difference between existing data having been accumulated and the uploaded data, a user database 44b for accumulating the produced difference data, and a downloading section 43e for producing data for download and transmitting the produced data to the terminal device 1, the data for download being produced from the existing data and the difference data. This structure can reduce a load on the backup server side when data accumulated in the terminal device are backed up by the backup server.

Claims

1. A backup system comprising:

a storage device connectable to a terminal device and operable to accumulate data;

a backup server connectable to said terminal device through an IP network which is constructed by connecting communication lines with each other;

a monitoring section operable to monitor the data occupancy ratio in said storage device on said terminal device side;

an extracting section operable to extract, when the data occupancy ratio is greater than a predetermined ratio, data in accordance with the data attribute in said storage device;

an upload section operable to transmit the data, which is extracted by said extracting section, to said backup server;

a difference data producing section located on said backup server side and operable to produce difference data between existing data which is already accumulated and upload data which is transmitted by said upload section;

a difference accumulating section operable to accumulate said difference data which is produced;

a downloading section operable to produce download data from said existing data and said difference data in response to a request from said terminal system, and transmit said download data, which is produced, to said terminal device.

2. The backup system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said extracting section is operable to determine, as data attributes, the extension and last update date and time of a data file, and extract data in accordance with a data attribute which is set by a user.

3. The backup system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said upload data is broadcast content, which is received through a radio wave broadcast and stored on said broadcast content side, and wherein said difference data producing section is operable to produce said difference data as noise which is generated during receiving said broadcast content.

4. The backup system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said broadcast content is reception content which is received through a radio wave broadcast by a content server located on said IP network and which is rebroadcasted by a radio wave transmitter section connected through said IP network, and wherein said existing data in said backup server is said reception content.

5. The backup system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said radio wave transmitter section is located alongside the railway or the roadway.

6. A method of backing up data accumulated in a storage device connected to a terminal device through an IP network which is constructed by connecting communication lines with each other, said method comprising:

a step of monitoring the data occupancy ratio in said storage device on said terminal device side;

a step of extracting, when the data occupancy ratio is greater than a predetermined ratio, data in accordance with the data attribute in said storage device, and transmitting the data, which is extracted by said extracting section, to said backup server;

a step of producing, on said backup server side, difference data between existing data which is already accumulated and upload data which is transmitted by said upload section, and accumulating said difference data which is produced; and

a step of producing download data from said existing data and said difference data in response to a request from said terminal system, and transmitting said download data, which is produced, to said terminal device.

7. The backup method as claimed in claim 6 wherein said upload data is broadcast content, which is received through a radio wave broadcast and stored on said broadcast content side, and wherein said difference data is noise which is generated during receiving said broadcast content.

8. The backup method as claimed in claim 6 wherein said broadcast content is reception content which is received through a radio wave broadcast by a content server located on said IP network and which is rebroadcasted through said IP network, and wherein said existing data in said backup server is said reception content.