METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA ARCHIVING

• US 20100161561A1
• Filed: 05/21/2009
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University)
• Original Assignee: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University)
• Inventors: Herzenberg, Leonore A., Moore, Wayne, Parks, David R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,548,950 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/661
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06

Abstract

Disclosed is a method and system for archiving data. A server computer (or any computing device) receives data transmitted over a network from a client computer, wherein at least some of the data was previously collected by a scientific instrument during an experiment. After receiving the data, the server computer updates (e.g., creates) an index for the received data, archives the received data, and automatically transmits a notification to the client computer that the received data has been archived.

Claims

1. A data archiving method comprising:

receiving, by a server computer, data transmitted over a network from a client computer, the data comprising experiment data previously collected by a scientific instrument during an experiment;

updating, by the server computer, an index with information about the received data;

archiving the received data; and

automatically transmitting a notification to the client computer that the received data has been archived.

2. The data archiving method of claim 1, wherein the updating of the index comprises creating the index.

3. The data archiving method of claim 1, wherein the receiving step further comprises determining that the client computer is on a list of specified client computers.

4. The data archiving method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises one or more files.

5. The data archiving method of claim 4, further comprising organizing related files in the one or more files into a file set.

6. The data archiving method of claim 5, further comprising digitally signing the related files before organizing the related files into a file set.

7. The data archiving method of claim 1, further comprising removing the data from the server computer when the server computer requires additional storage space.

8. The data archiving method of claim 1, wherein the archiving step further comprises storing the received data in two or more offline storage media.

9. The data archiving method of claim 8, further comprising automatically creating, verifying, indexing, and labeling the two or more offline storage media.

10. The data archiving method of claim 8, wherein the archiving step further comprises storing the received data and the index in two or more offline storage media.

11. The data archiving method of claim 8, further comprising automatically migrating the two or more offline storage media to different storage media.

12. A computer readable medium storing computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor on a computing device, the computer program instructions defining the steps of:

receiving data transmitted over a network from a client computer, the data comprising experiment data previously collected by a scientific instrument during an experiment;

updating an index with information about the received data;

archiving the received data; and

automatically transmitting a notification to the client computer that the received data has been archived.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the updating of the index comprises creating the index.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the data comprises one or more files.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 14, further comprising computer program instructions defining the step of organizing related files in the one or more files into a file set.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 12, further comprising computer program instructions defining the step of removing the data from the computing device when the computing device requires additional storage space.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the archiving step further comprises storing the received data in two or more offline storage media.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17, further comprising computer program instructions defining the step of automatically creating, verifying, indexing, and labeling the two or more offline storage media.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the archiving step further comprises storing the received data and the index in two or more offline storage media.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 12, further comprising computer program instructions defining the step of automatically migrating the two or more offline storage media to different storage media.

21. A server computer comprising:

an interface configured to receive data transmitted over a network from a client computer; and

a processor configured to;

update an index with information about the received data,

archive the received data, and

automatically transmit a notification to the client computer that the received data has been archived.

22. The server computer of claim 21, wherein the processor being configured to update the index further comprises the processor being configured to create the index.

23. A data archiving method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device from a scientific instrument, experiment data previously collected by the scientific instrument during an experiment;

formatting the experiment data into formatted data;

transmitting, by the computing device, the formatted data to a server computer for archiving; and

receiving, by the computing device from the server computer, a notification that the formatted data has been archived.