Cloud computing method capable of hiding real file paths

• US 20120259964A1
• Filed: 08/24/2011
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: D-Link Corporation
• Original Assignee: D-Link Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Chih-Chiang, Kao, Hung-Chun, Lin, Yu-Sheng, Chiang, Ting-Yu, Wu, Shih-Hui, Wang, Wen-Yuan, Lee, Cho-Hsuan, Luo, Chi-Ming, Liang, Yi-Hua, Wu, Min-Hui, Chen, Hsiao-Yun, Chang, Kuan-Yi, Huang, Chi-Hsiu, Lai, Jia-Bin, Lin, Heng-Chang, Wang, Yu-Hsiang
• Application Number:
  US13/137,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20120259964A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a cloud computing method capable of hiding real file paths, which includes the steps of: triggering a web browsing button of an application program and sending a browsing activation signal to a management server by a terminal device; reading a directory list of at least one file from a file server and sending a file browsing program and the directory list to the terminal device by the management server; displaying the directory list via the file browsing program and sending a file processing signal to the management server by the terminal device; downloading from the file server a file specified by the file processing signal and sending the specified file to the terminal device by the management server; and sending the specified file to a third-party application server via the application program and terminating the file browsing program by the terminal device.

Claims

1. A cloud computing method capable of hiding real file paths, the cloud computing method being applicable to a network system, wherein the network system comprises a terminal device, a file server, a management server, and a third-party application server, the management server being connected respectively to the terminal device and the file server, the third-party application server being connected to the terminal device, the terminal device being installed with an application program which, when executed by the terminal device, displays a web browsing button on the terminal device, the file server storing at least one file and being configured to generate a directory list according to the at least one file, the cloud computing method comprising the steps, performed to read the at least one file, of:

receiving a first trigger command from an input device, triggering the web browsing button according to the first trigger command, and sending a browsing activation signal to the management server, by the terminal device;

receiving the browsing activation signal, reading the directory list from the file server, and sending a file browsing program and the directory list to the terminal device, by the management server;

receiving the file browsing program and the directory list and displaying the directory list via the file browsing program, by the terminal device;

receiving a file selection command from the input device, selecting a said file from the directory list according to the file selection command, and sending a file processing signal to the management server, by the terminal device, wherein the file processing signal specifies the file selected;

receiving the file processing signal, downloading from the file server the file specified by the file processing signal, and sending the specified file to the terminal device, by the management server; and

sending the specified file to the third-party application server via the application program and terminating the file browsing program, by the terminal device.

2. The cloud computing method of claim 1, wherein the application program further displays a save button on the terminal device, and the cloud computing method further comprises the steps, performed to save files, of:

receiving a second trigger command from the input device, triggering the save button according to the second trigger command, sending a file saving signal to the third-party application server, receiving a processed file from the third-party application server, activating the file browsing program, and displaying the directory list via the file browsing program, by the terminal device;

receiving a save command from the input device, selecting a saving path from the directory list according to the save command, and sending a file saving path signal and the processed file to the management server, by the terminal device, wherein the file saving path signal contains the saving path selected; and

receiving the file saving path signal and the processed file and sending the processed file to a location in the file server that corresponds to the saving path in the file saving path signal, by the management server.

3. The cloud computing method of claim 2, further comprising the step, performed by the management server after downloading the file specified by the file processing signal, of performing format conversion on the specified file, wherein the specified file, which is in binary format, is converted into Data URI format before the specified file in the Data URI format is sent to the terminal device.

4. The cloud computing method of claim 3, further comprising the step, performed by the third-party application server upon receiving the specified file, of performing format conversion on the specified file, wherein the specified file in the Data URI format is converted into the binary format.

5. The cloud computing method of claim 4, further comprising the step, performed by the third-party application server before sending the processed file to the terminal device, of performing format conversion on the processed file, wherein the processed file, which is in the binary format, is converted into the Data URI format.

6. The cloud computing method of claim 5, further comprising the step, performed by the management server upon receiving the processed file, of performing format conversion on the processed file, wherein the processed file, which is in the Data URI format, is converted into the binary format before the processed file in the binary format is sent to the file server.

7. The cloud computing method of claim 6, wherein the third-party application server is connected to the management server, and the application program is downloaded for installation by the terminal device from the third-party application server through the management server.

8. The cloud computing method of claim 7, wherein before the management server sends the application program to the terminal device, program codes written in a dynamic scripting language for the web browsing button and the save button are inserted by the management server into the application program.