ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CLOUD STORAGE SPACES, METHOD AND TANGIBLE EMBODIED COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF

• US 20130254326A1
• Filed: 06/26/2012
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Egis Technology Inc.
• Original Assignee: Egis Technology Inc.
• Inventors: Weng, Yung-Chiuan, Zhang, Wei, Yeh, Chun-Hao, Qian, Bin
• Application Number:
  US13/533,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20130254326A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/215
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• 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

The present invention discloses an electronic device, a cloud storage system, a method thereof and a tangible embodied computer readable medium. The cloud storage system comprises at least one server and an electronic device. The at least one server provides a plurality of cloud storage spaces for accessing data. The electronic device comprises a storage management interface and is connected to each of the servers via Internet in order to access the cloud storage space. Wherein, the cloud storage spaces are integrated as a virtual storage space by the electronic device for a user to access data therefrom. The user can concurrently access the cloud storage spaces through the storage management interface of the electronic device, or access one of the cloud storage spaces by multi-thread or multi-process so as to raise the access speed.

Claims

1. A cloud storage system, comprising:

at least one server, arranged for providing a plurality of cloud storage spaces for data access; and

an electronic device, comprising a storage management interface, the electronic device connected to the at least one server via a network for accessing the cloud storage spaces;

wherein, the cloud storage spaces are integrated as a virtual storage space by the electronic device for a user to access data therefrom, the cloud storage spaces are concurrently accessed through the storage management interface, or accessed one at a time in multi-thread or multi-process manners, thereby improving an access speed thereof.

2. The cloud storage system of claim 1, wherein a file attempted to be uploaded to the virtual storage is divided into a plurality of file blocks, and the file blocks are respectively transmitted to different cloud storage space and stored in different cloud storage spaces by the electronic device.

3. The cloud storage system of claim 2, wherein a portion or all of the file blocks are encrypted by the electronic device.

4. The cloud storage system of claim 2, wherein the electronic device determines a size of each of the file blocks according to an attribute of the file.

5. The cloud storage system of claim 4, wherein the electronic device determines that the file blocks are stored in the same cloud storage space or different cloud storage spaces according to the attribute of the file.

6. The cloud storage system of claim 5, wherein the electronic device backs up the file blocks by way of mirror backup or the electronic device restores lost file blocks by error-checking and/or correcting.

7. The cloud storage system of claim 6, wherein mirrored data generated by the mirror backup or error-checking and/or correcting data generated by the error-checking and/or correcting are uploaded along with the file blocks by the electronic device.

8. The cloud storage system of claim 6, wherein sufficient number of the cloud storage spaces are selected by the electronic device according to an connection speed between each of the cloud spaces and the electronic device to retrieve the file blocks so as to rebuild the file.

9. The cloud storage system of claim 7, wherein the mirrored data generated by the mirror backup or the error-checking and/or correcting data generated by the error-checking and/or correcting are stored in different cloud storage spaces by the electronic device.

10. A cloud storage management method, comprising the following steps of:

providing a plurality of cloud storage spaces for data access by at least one server;

providing a storage management interface by an electronic device, and connecting the electronic device to the at least one server via a network for accessing the cloud storage spaces; and

integrating the cloud storage spaces as a virtual storage space by the electronic device for a user to access data therefrom,

wherein the cloud storage spaces are concurrently accessed through the storage management interface, or accessed one at a time in multi-thread or multi-process manners, thereby improving an access speed thereof.

11. The cloud storage management method of claim 10, further comprising the following step of:

dividing a file attempted to be uploaded to the virtual storage space into a plurality of file blocks, and respectively transmitting the file blocks to different cloud storage spaces by the electronic device in order to store the file blocks in different cloud storage spaces.

12. The cloud storage management method of claim 11, further comprising the following step of:

encrypting a portion or all of the file blocks by the electronic device.

13. The cloud storage management method of claim 11, further comprising the following step of:

determining a size of each of the file blocks according to an attribute of the file by the electronic device.

14. The cloud storage management method of claim 13, further comprising the following step of:

determining that the file blocks are stored in the same cloud storage space or different cloud storage spaces according to the attribute of the file by the electronic device.

15. The cloud storage management method of claim 14, further comprising the following step of:

backing up the file blocks by way of mirror backup or calculating lost file blocks to restore the file by error-checking and/or correcting by the electronic device.

16. The cloud storage management method of claim 15, further comprising the following step of:

uploading mirrored data generated by the mirror backup or error-checking and/or correcting data generated by the error-checking and/or correcting along with the file blocks by the electronic device.

17. The cloud storage management method of claim 15, further comprising the following step of:

selecting sufficient number of the cloud storage spaces according to a connection speed between each of the cloud spaces and the electronic device by the electronic device to retrieve the file blocks so as to rebuild the file.

18. The cloud storage management method of claim 16, further comprising the following step of:

storing the mirrored data generated by the mirror backup or the error-checking and/or correcting data generated by the error-checking and/or correcting in different cloud storage spaces by the electronic device.

19. An electronic device, comprising a storage management interface, and the electronic device connected to a plurality of cloud storage spaces via a network;

wherein, the cloud storage spaces are integrated as a virtual storage space by the electronic device for a user to access data therefrom, the cloud storage spaces are concurrently accessed through the storage management interface, or accessed one at a time in multi-thread or multi-process manners, thereby improving an access speed thereof.

20. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein a file attempted to be uploaded to the virtual storage is divided into a plurality of file blocks, and the file blocks are respectively transmitted to different cloud storage space and stored in different cloud storage spaces.

21. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein a portion or all of the file blocks are encrypted by the electronic device.

22. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the electronic device determines a size of each of the file blocks according to an attribute of the file.

23. The electronic device of claim 22, wherein the electronic device determines that the file blocks are stored in the same cloud storage space or different cloud storage spaces according to the attribute of the file.

24. The electronic device of claim 23, wherein the electronic device backs up the file blocks by way of mirror backup or the electronic device restores lost file blocks by error-checking and/or correcting.

25. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein mirrored data generated by the mirror backup or error-checking and/or correcting data generated by the error-checking and/or correcting are uploaded along with the file blocks by the electronic device.

26. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein sufficient number of the cloud storage spaces are selected by the electronic device according to an connection speed between each of the cloud spaces and the electronic device to retrieve the file blocks so as to rebuild the file.

27. The electronic device of claim 25, wherein the mirrored data generated by the mirror backup or the error-checking and/or correcting data generated by the error-checking and/or correcting are stored in different cloud storage spaces by the electronic device.

28. A tangibly embodied computer readable medium carrying a computer program adopted to cause a computer to perform a method comprises the following steps of:

providing a storage management interface by the computer, and connecting the computer to at least one server providing cloud storage spaces via a network for accessing the cloud storage spaces;

integrating the cloud storage spaces as a virtual storage space by the computer for a user to access data therefrom; and

concurrently accessing the cloud storage spaces through the storage management interface of the computer, or accessing one of the cloud storage spaces by multi-thread or multi-process so as to raise an access speed of the computer.

29. The tangibly embodied computer readable medium of claim 28, wherein the method further comprises the following step of:

dividing a file attempted to be uploaded to the virtual storage space into a plurality of file blocks, and respectively transmitting the file blocks to different cloud storage spaces by the computer in order to store the file blocks in different cloud storage spaces.

30. The tangibly embodied computer readable medium of claim 29, wherein the method further comprises the following step of:

encrypting a portion or all of the file blocks by the computer.

31. The tangibly embodied computer readable medium of claim 29, wherein the method further comprises the following step of:

determining a size of each of the file blocks according to an attribute of the file by the computer.

32. The tangibly embodied computer readable medium of claim 31, wherein the method further comprises the following step of:

determining that the file blocks are stored in the same cloud storage space or different cloud storage spaces according to the attribute of the file by the computer.

33. The tangibly embodied computer readable medium of claim 32, wherein the method further comprises the following step of:

backing up the file blocks by way of mirror backup or calculating lost file blocks to restore the file by error-checking and/or correcting by the computer.

34. The tangibly embodied computer readable medium of claim 33, wherein the method further comprises the following step of:

uploading mirrored data generated by the mirror backup or error-checking and/or correcting data generated by the error-checking and/or correcting along with the file blocks by the computer.

35. The tangibly embodied computer readable medium of claim 33, wherein the method further comprises the following step of:

selecting sufficient number of the cloud storage spaces according to a connection speed between each of the cloud spaces and the computer by the computer to retrieve the file blocks so as to rebuild the file.

36. The tangibly embodied computer readable medium of claim 34, wherein the method further comprises the following step of:

storing the mirrored data generated by the mirror backup or the error-checking and/or correcting data generated by the error-checking and/or correcting in different cloud storage spaces by the computer.

37. A cloud storage system, comprising:

a server, arranged for providing a cloud storage space for data access; and

an electronic device, comprising a storage management interface, the electronic device connected to the at least one server via a network for accessing the cloud storage space,

wherein the cloud storage space is accessed in multi-thread or multi-process manners through the storage management interface of the electronic device by a user, thereby improving an access speed thereof.