SHARED RESOURCE AND VIRTUAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT

• US 20120271903A1
• Filed: 04/19/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Luna, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/451,327
• Publication Number:
  US 20120271903A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/213
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/509 Offload
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0605 by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0644 Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5016 the resource being the memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• 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]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/288 Distributed intermediate devices, i.e. intermediate devices for interaction with other intermediate devices on the same level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/06 using polling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

Systems and methods for shared resource or virtual resource management in a networked environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, includes, creating a virtual memory pool from an aggregation of the physical memory of the devices and/or allocating portions of the virtual memory pool to a given device among the devices. Further, the portions of the virtual memory pool allocated to the given device are in part accessible over a wireless connection for data retrieval and storage by the given device.

Claims

1. A method for storage sharing among two devices, the method, comprising:

offloading storage needs of a first device to a second device among two devices coupled in a wireless network;

wherein, in offloading the storage needs, data for use at the first device is transmitted over the wireless network to be stored at the second device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, tracking, by the first device, which portion of the data for use at the first device is stored at the second device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising, tracking, by a server in the wireless network, which portion of the data for use at the first device is stored at the second device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, the storage needs are determined from lack of availability of physical storage space on the first device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, the storage needs are determined from availability of physical storage space on the second device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, the storage needs are determined from shared data between the two devices.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein, the data is shared as a result of co-location of the two devices.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein, the storage that is shared includes databases on the two devices.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein, the storage that is shared includes memory on the two devices.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein, the storage that is shared includes non-volatile storage on the two devices including hard disk storage or flash memory.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein, the wireless network includes Wifi or home network.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein, the wireless network includes mobile network or cellular network.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein, the wireless network includes Bluetooth.

14. A method for device resource sharing among devices in a network, the method, comprising:

wirelessly accessing, by one device among the devices in the network, device resources of another device in the network;

using the device resources of the other device wirelessly accessed by the one device by retrieving or storing data for use by the one device.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

wirelessly accessing, by the other device resources of the one device in the network;

using the device resources of the one device wirelessly accessed by the other device by retrieving or storing data for use by the other device.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein, the device resources that are shared include physical memory on the devices.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein, the device resources that are shared include physical storage on the devices.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein, the device resources that are shared include database parameters.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein, the devices among which resources are shared are similar or same types of devices.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein, the devices among which resources are shared have same or similar functionalities.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein, the devices among which resources are shared are co-located or are geographically proximate to one another.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein, the devices among which resources are shared are connected to or have access to a same network.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein, the devices among which resources are shared wirelessly have a same user or groups of users.

24. A machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions which when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform a method for managing sharing of physical memory among devices, the method, comprising:

creating a virtual memory pool from an aggregation of the physical memory of the devices;

allocating portions of the virtual memory pool to a given device among the devices;

wherein, the portions of the virtual memory pool allocated to the given device is in part accessible over a wireless connection for data retrieval and storage by the given device.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein, the portions of the virtual memory pool allocated to the one device includes physical memory located on other devices among the devices.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein, the other devices having the physical memory which is a part of the portions of the virtual memory pool allocated to the one device, share a common feature with the one device.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein, the common feature includes, one or more of, functionality, device type, location, or user.

28. A mobile device which uses the resources of other devices via a wireless network, the method, comprising:

means for, offloading storage needs to another device in the wireless network;

wherein, in offloading the storage needs, data for use by the mobile device is transmitted over the wireless network to be stored at the other device;

wherein, the wireless network includes one or more of, Wifi and cellular network.

29. The mobile device of claim 28, wherein, the storage needs are determined from lack of availability of physical storage space on the mobile device.

30. The mobile device of claim 28, wherein, the storage that is shared includes, one or more of, physical memory, hard disk storage or flash memory on the other device.