RESTORING DATA TO A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20110016089A1
• Filed: 07/16/2009
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Freedman, Gordie, Paterson, Toby Charles Wood, Farkas, Jacob
• Application Number:
  US12/504,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20110016089A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/640
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1448 Management of the data involved in backup or backup restore
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for backing up and restoring data to a mobile device. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving data from a mobile device to be included in a backup, the data including data associated with one or more mobile device applications; storing the data in a backup archive; generating a backup mapping file for each of the mobile device applications, each backup mapping file identifying each file in the backup associated with the respective application; and using the backup mapping files to restore the corresponding applications to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving data from a mobile device to be included in a backup, the data including data associated with one or more mobile device applications;

storing the data in a backup archive;

generating a backup mapping file for each of the mobile device applications, each backup mapping file identifying each file in the backup associated with the respective application; and

using the backup mapping files to restore the corresponding applications to the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting a backup restoration interface, the backup restoration interface including a selectable representation of each application having a backup mapping file.

3. The method of claim 2, where each backup mapping file further includes a graphical file used to represent the application in the backup restoration interface.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an input to restore application data to a mobile device;

presenting a backup restoration interface, the backup restoration interface including a selectable representation of each application having a backup mapping file;

receiving a user selection of an application to restore; and

restoring the selected application to the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 4, where restoring the selected application comprises:

identifying one or more files associated with the selected application in the backup mapping file;

identifying files corresponding to the identified one or more files in the backup archive; and

restoring the identified files in the backup archive to the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating one or more incremental backups of the mobile device, each incremental backup including data changed from a previous backup.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

presenting a backup restoration interface, the backup restoration interface including multiple user interface representations of previous backups of the mobile device, each backup corresponding to a previous state of the mobile device, each user interface representation presenting one or more applications of the mobile device corresponding to the previous state and available for restoration.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a particular user interface representation;

receiving a selection of a particular application in the selected user interface representation; and

restoring the selected application.

9. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving data from a mobile device to be included in a backup, the data including data associated with one or more files on a mobile device;

storing the data in a backup archive;

generating a backup mapping file for one or more associated files of the mobile device, each backup mapping file identifying each file in the backup associated with the respective one or more associated files; and

using the backup mapping files to restore the corresponding files to the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving an input to restore file data to a mobile device;

presenting a backup restoration interface, the backup restoration interface including a selectable representation of the one or more files having a backup mapping file;

receiving a user selection of one or more files to restore; and

restoring the selected files to the mobile device.

11. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving an input to restore application data to a mobile device;

generating a restoration interface, the restoration interface including a selectable representation of each application available for restoration according to a corresponding backup mapping file, the backup mapping file associating files in the backup archive for the application;

receiving a user selection of a particular application to restore; and

restoring the application to the mobile device including using the backup mapping file for the selected application to identify files in the backup archive to restore.

12. A system comprising:

one or more processors configured to perform operations comprising;

receiving data from a mobile device to be included in a backup, the data including data associated with one or more mobile device applications;

storing the data in a backup archive;

generating a backup mapping file for each of the mobile device applications, each backup mapping file identifying each file in the backup associated with the respective application; and

using the backup mapping files to restore the corresponding applications to the mobile device.

13. The system of claim 12, further operable to perform operations comprising:

presenting a backup restoration interface, the backup restoration interface including a selectable representation of each application having a backup mapping file.

14. The system of claim 13, where each backup mapping file further includes a graphical file used to represent the application in the backup restoration interface.

15. The system of claim 12, further operable to perform operations comprising:

receiving an input to restore application data to a mobile device;

presenting a backup restoration interface, the backup restoration interface including a selectable representation of each application having a backup mapping file;

receiving a user selection of an application to restore; and

restoring the selected application to the mobile device.

16. The system of claim 15, where restoring the selected application comprises:

identifying one or more files associated with the selected application in the backup mapping file;

identifying files corresponding to the identified one or more files in the backup archive; and

restoring the identified files in the backup archive to the mobile device.

17. The system of claim 12, further operable to perform operations comprising:

generating one or more incremental backups of the mobile device, each incremental backup including data changed from a previous backup.

18. The system of claim 17, further operable to perform operations comprising:

presenting a backup restoration interface, the backup restoration interface including multiple user interface representations of previous backups of the mobile device, each backup corresponding to a previous state of the mobile device, each user interface representation presenting one or more applications of the mobile device corresponding to the previous state and available for restoration.

19. The system of claim 18, further operable to perform operations comprising:

receiving a selection of a particular user interface representation;

receiving a selection of a particular application in the selected user interface representation; and

restoring the selected application.

20. A system comprising:

one or more processors configured to perform operations including;

receiving data from a mobile device to be included in a backup, the data including data associated with one or more files on a mobile device;

storing the data in a backup archive;

generating a backup mapping file for one or more associated files of the mobile device, each backup mapping file identifying each file in the backup associated with the respective one or more associated files; and

using the backup mapping files to restore the corresponding files to the mobile device.

21. The system of claim 20, further configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving an input to restore file data to a mobile device;

presenting a backup restoration interface, the backup restoration interface including a selectable representation of the one or more files having a backup mapping file;

receiving a user selection of one or more files to restore; and

restoring the selected files to the mobile device.

22. A system comprising:

one or more processors configured to perform operations including;

receiving an input to restore application data to a mobile device;

generating a restoration interface, the restoration interface including a selectable representation of each application available for restoration according to a corresponding backup mapping file, the backup mapping file associating files in the backup archive for the application;

receiving a user selection of a particular application to restore; and

restoring the application to the mobile device including using the backup mapping file for the selected application to identify files in the backup archive to restore.