MANAGING THE SITE WHERE DATA IS STORED IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM

• US 20110320509A1
• Filed: 06/23/2011
• Published: 12/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Baranski, Fabrice
• Application Number:
  US13/167,031
• Publication Number:
  US 20110320509A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/827
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/278 Data partitioning, e.g. horizontal or vertical partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0643 Management of files
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A management method for managing the site is provided where data is stored in a distributed storage system including a plurality of devices connected together by means of a network, the devices having respective data storage sites in which a user may store data, wherein the site where data is stored in the system is selected as a function of information associated with the user of the system.

Claims

1. A management method for managing the site where data is stored in a distributed storage system including a plurality of devices connected together by means of a network, the devices having respective data storage sites in which a user may store data, wherein the site where data is stored in the system is selected as a function of information associated with the user of the system.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information is information associated with the user'"'"'s activity relative to a device.

3. The management method according to claim 1, wherein the information corresponds to a defined state relative to an interpersonal communications tool, and in that a state corresponds to a predefined storage location.

4. The management method according to claim 1, wherein selection is followed by transferring data form a source storage site to a destination storage site, and in that after the transfer, the data stored in the source site is erased.

5. The management method according to claim 1, wherein the system comprises a module suitable for managing the data storage site in the distributed storage system, and after data has been transferred from a source storage site to a designation storage site, the data stored in the source device is conserved, and in that if a transfer from the designation storage site to the source device relates to the same data, then said transfer comprises a step of updating the new storage site.

8. A non-transitory computer program product comprising instructions for implementing the method according to claim 1 in a module when the program is executed by a processor.

6. A distributed storage system comprising a plurality of devices, each having respective storage means in which a user can store data, the devices being connected to one another via a network, wherein the system comprises a module suitable for selecting a data storage site within the system as a function of information associated with the user of the system.

7. A module suitable for managing the site where data is stored in a distributed storage system comprising a plurality of devices connected to one another via a network, the devices comprising respective data storage sites in which a user can store data, wherein the module includes selector means suitable for selecting a data storage site within the system as a function of information associated with the user of the system.