FILE SERVICE SYSTEM IN PERSONAL AREA NETWORK

• US 20080086483A1
• Filed: 10/09/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
• Original Assignee: Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
• Inventors: PARK, Chanik, KIM, Shine, LEE, Woojoong
• Application Number:
  US11/869,223
• Publication Number:
  US 20080086483A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/188 Virtual file systems

Abstract

Provided is a file service system in a personal area network (PAN), which can improve accessibility of data by defining a semantic file addressing scheme and its construction mechanism on the network, as well as extensibility of data management, such as an automatic backup and replication, by including two separated layers, i.e. a data access layer and a data replication layer. Accordingly, the file service system in PAN includes a data access layer, which is constructed by using UPnP to automatically build up a semantic file address space over all personal devices in the network and using by WebDAV for file I/Os, and a data replication layer, which is based on an object-based storage device (OSD) protocol and is in charge of an automated data backup and replication, wherein the data access layer and the data replication layer are separated.

Claims

1. A file service system in a personal area network (PAN), the file service system comprising:

a data access layer, which is constructed using a peer-to-peer structure with UPnP and WebDAV protocols; and

a data replication layer, which is based on an object-based storage device (OSD) protocol and is in charge of an automated data backup and replication, wherein the data access layer and the data replication layer are separated.

2. The file service system of claim 1, wherein the data access layer comprises a virtual storage.

3. The file service system of claim 2, wherein the virtual storage comprises a semantic file addressing scheme with virtual directory tree.

4. The file service system of claim 1, wherein the data access layer uses a keyword-based query.

5. The file service system of claim 1, wherein the data access layer comprises a database for file metadata and a database for a user profile.

6. The file service system of claim 5, further comprising a file I/O monitor for managing the database for file metadata, wherein the user profile is formed of named context and unnamed context.

7. The file service system of claim 3, wherein the virtual directory is obtained using the following formula.

V:

=π

_value((σ

_{Acond (0)}=k (A)_uri σ

_Acond(0)(A)_uri . . . σ

_Acond(n-1) (A)), _uri σ

_Fcond (F)),

F_V;

=π

_uri((σ

_{Aari=KA value=value} (A)_uri σ

_Acond(0) (A)_uri . . . σ

_Acond(n-1) (A))_uri σ

_Fcond (F)),

V_ctx;

=π

_kctx (σ

_{Ccond(0)Ccond(1)} . . . _Ccond(n-1) (C)),

F_Vctx;

=π

_uri(σ

_{Ccond (0)Ccond (1)} . . . _{Ccond (n-1)} (C)),

where n;

size of list,

F;

File table,

A;

Attribute table,

C;

Context table,

F_cond;

List of field name and value pairs in F,

A_cond;

List of attribute-value pairs in A,

C_cond;

List of field name and value pairs in C,

k;

Keyword for virtual directory,

k_ctx;

Context keyword for virtual directory,

V;

a set of virtual directories,

V_ctx;

a set virtual directories corresponding to a context query,

F_V;

a set of files in V,

F_Vctx;

a set of files in V_ctx.

8. The file service system of claim 1, wherein the data replication layer comprises:

OSD controllers;

OSD targets; and

replication managers.

9. The file service system of claim 1, wherein the data replication layer comprises:

an object data field; and

an object attribute field.

10. The file service system of claim 9, wherein the object data field stores an object pointer, which points an actual data object to be replicated, and the object attribute field comprises replica metadata related to a replication method of the data object.