Application-Based Backup-Restore of Electronic Information

• US 20080307347A1
• Filed: 06/06/2008
• Published: 12/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Lyons, David, Cisler, Pavel, Ulrich, Robert
• Application Number:
  US12/135,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20080307347A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/84 Using snapshots, i.e. a logical point-in-time copy of the data

Abstract

Systems and methods are provides for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a system is provided. The system includes a backup component, the backup component for capturing a state of a view of a user interface of an application as part of a backup operation and a first interface coupling the backup component and the application, the interface providing a communication link between the backup component and the application such that a backup user interface can display the captured state of the view. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, computer program products, and computer readable media.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a backup component, the backup component for capturing a state of a view of a user interface of an application as part of a backup operation; and

a first interface coupling the backup component and the application, the interface providing a communication link between the backup component and the application such that a backup user interface can display the captured state of the view.

2. The system of claim 1, the communication link provided by the first interface includes instructions describing how to present the backup user interface and the data to include in the backup user interface.

3. The system of claim 2, where the instructions describing how to present the backup user interface includes instructions to display the backup user interface and instructions to exit the backup user interface.

4. The system of claim 2, where instructions describing the data to include in the backup user interface include instructions for integrating backup data in a form of a user interface for the application.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a second interface coupling the backup component to a system component, the second interface providing communication between the backup component and the system component.

6. The system of claim 5, where the communication provided by the second interface includes communication regarding a status of backup operations.

7. The system of claim 6, where the status of backup operations includes one or more of an initiation of a backup operation and a completion of a backup operation.

8. The system of claim 1, where the first interface is a service provider interface.

9. The system of claim 1, where the application is a mail application.

10. The system of claim 1, where the application is an audio application.

11. A method comprising:

receiving from an application, while a current view of an application is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting that a history view associated with the current view of the application be displayed;

retrieving information associated with the current view of the application;

retrieving from a backup archive backup data associated with the history view; and

providing the retrieved backup data and information to a backup component for presentation to the user.

12. The method of claim 11, where retrieving information associated with the current view of the application includes retrieving format information.

13. The method of claim 12, where the format information includes information for generating a user interface layout for the application.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

using the backup data and the format information to generate a plurality of visual representations corresponding to earlier versions of the current view of the application.