REMOTE ACCESS FROM MOBILE DEVICES

• US 20130110979A1
• Filed: 10/27/2011
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kazan, Wissam, Zhao, Keping, Thomas, Michael, Zhu, Rui
• Granted Patent: US 9,716,744 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

In one embodiment, a mobile device 102 may execute a mobile client 104 to access a remote client 108 on a remote computer device 110. A mobile client 104 may connect to a data network 106. The mobile client 104 may establish a peer-to-peer connection with a remote client 108 executing on a remote computer device 110 over the data network 106.

Claims

1. A machine-implemented method, comprising:

connecting a mobile client executing on a mobile device to a data network; and

establishing a peer-to-peer connection between the mobile client and a remote client executing on a remote computer device over the data network.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing at least one of an edit action and a download action on a remote file of the remote computer device using the mobile client.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

streaming a remote sequential media file on the remote computer device to the mobile client.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing a file management action on the remote computer device using the mobile client.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing at least one of a create action, a delete action, a move action, and a remote copy action on a remote file of the remote computer device using the mobile client.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating a synchronization schedule between the mobile client and the remote client.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

synchronizing a remote file on the remote computer device with a mobile file on the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

performing a conflict resolution action between the remote file and the mobile file.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

factoring a user input into the conflict resolution action.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating a mobile file on the mobile device; and

pushing the mobile file to the remote client.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

contacting a remote access server to establish the peer-to-peer connection.

12. A tangible machine-readable medium having a set of instructions detailing a method stored thereon that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform the method, the method comprising:

connecting a remote client executing on a remote computer device to a data network; and

establishing a peer-to-peer connection between the remote client and a mobile client executing on a mobile device over the data network.

13. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

resizing a remote file on the remote client for presentation by the mobile client.

14. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

determining a mobile device specification for the mobile device.

15. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

determining a permission level for the mobile device.

16. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a mobile file from the mobile client.

17. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a peer-to-peer connection query from a remote access server on behalf of the mobile client.

18. The tangible machine-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

authenticating the mobile client for the remote client.

19. A mobile device, comprising:

a data storage that stores a mobile file;

a network interface that connects to a data network; and

a processor that executes a mobile client to establish a direct connection with a remote client executing on a remote computer device over the data network and pushing the mobile file to the remote client.

20. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the mobile client selects a remote file and pulls the remote file from the remote client.