SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE SERVICE

• US 20130041873A1
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Dana E. Laursen
• Inventors: LAURSEN, DANA E.
• Granted Patent: US 8,538,920 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1827 Management specifically adapted to NAS management of storage area networks [SAN] G06F3/067

Abstract

A storage service stores data from a network device. A data collector retrieves the data for the storage service based on reference data passed to the storage service from the network device.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions comprising:

a storage service to store data from a network device; and

a data collector to retrieve the data for the storage service based on reference data passed to the storage service from the network device.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the reference data includes an address for identifying a location of the data.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the reference data includes a number of bytes to be retrieved from the address.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the reference data includes an end of file code to enable the data collector to determine when to stop transferring data.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the address is a universal resource locator (URL) address or a file transfer protocol (FTP) address for identifying the location of the data.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data collector retrieves the data as packet bundles that are distributed over time depending on network bandwidth.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the data collector utilizes a schedule to retrieve the data for the storage service.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data collector employs a network get command to retrieve the data from the network device.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the security protocol includes a secure socket layer, a trusted certificate, or an encrypted channel to pass through the firewall of the network device.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising a publishing application that utilizes the storage service to retrieve files for a document generator utilizing the reference data.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the publishing application utilizes the storage service to retrieve files for the publishing application utilizing the reference data.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the data collector employs a security protocol to pass the data through a firewall of the network device when using the get command.

13. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a processor a request to store a data block from a network device;

receiving, by the processor, a reference address to the data block from the network device;

associating, by the processor, the reference address of the data block to a storage service data location; and

pulling, by the processor, data from the data block by utilizing the reference address to store the data at the storage service data location.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving a block length parameter or an end of file parameter with the reference address to determine an end of the data block.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising utilizing a get command to acquire the data from the network device.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising utilizing a security protocol in conjunction with the get command to acquire the data from the network device.

17. A system, comprising:

a memory for storing computer executable instructions; and

a processing unit for accessing the memory and executing the computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions comprising;

a storage service to aggregate data from a network device and store the data at the service;

a data collector to process a reference name associated with the network device, wherein the data collector pulls data from the network device according to an address location specified by the reference name;

a file length parameter or an end of file parameter to specify an amount of data to be transferred in accordance with the reference name;

a get command utilized by the data collector to pull the data from the network device in accordance with the reference name and the file length parameter or the end of file parameter; and

a security protocol utilized with the get command to pass through security blocks setup on the network device.