FILE MANAGING APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO AN ONLINE STORAGE SERVICE

• US 20120296970A1
• Filed: 05/18/2012
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Buffalo Incorporated (Melco Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Buffalo Incorporated (Melco Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: GOTO, Satoru
• Application Number:
  US13/475,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20120296970A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0804 with main memory updating G06F12/0806 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0868 Data transfer between cache memory and other subsystems, e.g. storage devices or host systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/154 Networked environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/463 File
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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 file managing apparatus that caches a file to be uploaded to an online storage; and controls withholding uploading the file to the online storage until a predetermined withholding time elapses since the file has been cached, even if the file is updated.

Claims

1. A file managing apparatus configured comprising:

a processor that;

caches a file to be uploaded to an online storage; and

controls withholding uploading the file to the online storage until a predetermined withholding time elapses since the file has been cached, even if the file is updated.

2. The file managing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the processor extends the time to withhold uploading the file as updates of the cached file increase in frequency.

3. The file managing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication interface that receives the file transmitted from a user terminal via a network, wherein

the processor caches the file transmitted from the user terminal via the network.

4. The file managing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the processor controls the communication interface to send, if the upload to the online storage fails, an e-mail reporting the failure of the upload to the user terminal.

5. The file managing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the processor performs file management by a directory configuration in which a virtual local directory indicating the online storage is arranged as a lower directory of a directory indicating the file managing apparatus.

6. The file managing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the processor caches the file based on a file storing request to the virtual local directory.

7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a process of managing access to an online storage, the process comprising:

caching a file to be uploaded to an online storage; and

withholding uploading the file until a predetermined withholding time elapses since the file has been cached, even if the file is updated.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 7, wherein

the withholding includes extending the time to withhold uploading the file as updates of the cached file increase in frequency.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 7, the process further comprising:

receiving the cached file from a user terminal via a network.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 9, the process further comprising:

sending, if the upload to the online storage fails, an e-mail reporting the failure of the upload to the user terminal.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 7, the process further comprising:

performing file management by a directory configuration in which a virtual local directory indicating the online storage is arranged as a lower directory of a directory indicating the computer.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein

the caching includes caching the file based on a file storing request to the virtual local directory.

13. A method of managing access to an online storage performed by a computer, the method comprising:

caching, by a processor of the computer, a file to be uploaded to the online storage; and

withholding, by the processor, uploading the file until a predetermined withholding time elapses since the file has been cached, even if the file is updated.