Micro-Staging Device and Method for Micro-Staging

• US 20130318194A1
• Filed: 05/25/2012
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Timbs, Jeffrey L.
• Granted Patent: US 10,474,691 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/213
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0862 with prefetch
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/172 Caching, prefetching or hoarding of files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/30047 Prefetch instructions; cache control instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/3802 Instruction prefetching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/3814 Implementation provisions of instruction buffers, e.g. prefetch buffer; banks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/383 Operand prefetching cache prefetching G06F12/0862

Abstract

A micro-staging device has a wireless interface module for detecting a first data request that indicates a presence of a user and an application processor that establishes a network connection to a remote data center. The micro-staging device further allocates a portion of storage in a cache memory storage device for storing pre-fetched workflow data objects associated with the detected user.

Claims

1. A micro-staging device comprising:

a wireless interface module for detecting a first data request indicating a presence of a user information handling system in a traffic area; and

an application processor for establishing a network connection to a remote data center and for pre-fetching workflow data objects from the remote data center based on a contextual policy;

the application processor further allocating a portion of storage in a cache memory storage device for storing pre-fetched workflow data objects associated with the detected user information handling system; and

the wireless interface module further adapted to transmit pre-fetched data from the cache memory storage device in response to receiving a second data request from the user information handling system;

wherein the workflow data objects pre-fetched according to the contextual policy are received from the remote data center based on identification of a project associated with the first data request.

2. The micro-staging device of claim 1, wherein the wireless interface module is further adapted to receive the second data request transmitted to the micro-staging device via a wireless network access point.

3. The micro-staging device of claim 1, wherein the workflow data objects pre-fetched according to the contextual policy are received from the remote data center further based on the identification of the presence of another team member information handling systems associated with the project in the traffic area.

4. The micro-staging device of claim 1, wherein the application processor is further adapted to:

establish a connection with a virtual machine pre-fetch application at the remote data center for executing the contextual policy to select pre-fetched workflow data objects.

5. The micro-staging device of claim 1, wherein the application processor is further adapted to:

detect that the user information handling system is no longer present in the traffic area;

eject the stored pre-fetched workflow data; and

de-allocate the portion of storage.

6. The micro-staging device of claim 1, wherein the application processor is further adapted to:

store changed workflow data objects received from the user information handling system in the allocated storage and forward the changed work flow data objects to the remote data center for back-up without further communication activity from the user information handling system.

7. The micro-staging device of claim 1, wherein the workflow data objects pre-fetched according to the contextual policy are received from the remote data center further based on identification of a calendared meeting for the project.

8. A method comprising:

receiving at a micro-staging device an indication of a presence of a user information handling system in a traffic area;

sending a command to a virtual machine pre-fetch application to provide pre-fetched workflow data objects according to a contextual policy at a remote data center via a network connection;

allocating a portion of storage at the micro-staging device for storing pre-fetched workflow data associated with the detected user information handling system;

receiving pre-fetched workflow data objects from the remote data center;

detecting a data request from the user information handling system; and

transmitting a responsive pre-fetched workflow data object from the micro-staging device to the user information handling system;

wherein the contextual policy determines the workflow data to be pre-fetched by the virtual machine pre-fetch application and includes a user-defined command to retrieve workflow data objects associated with an identified application.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the contextual policy determines the workflow data to be pre-fetched by the virtual machine pre-fetch application and further includes the user-defined command to retrieve only newly received workflow data objects associated with an identified application.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the contextual policy determines the workflow data to be pre-fetched by the virtual machine pre-fetch application and further includes:

a command to retrieve workflow data objects associated with a project upon occurrence of a calendared meeting for the project.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

ejecting any stored pre-fetched workflow data objects from the storage device upon detecting that the user information handling system has roamed away from the traffic area.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

de-allocating the portion of storage at the micro-staging device for storing pre-fetched workflow data.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

ejecting any stored pre-fetched workflow data objects from the storage device upon delivery of the pre-fetched workflow data objects to the detected user information handling system in the traffic area.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

de-allocating the portion of storage at the micro-staging device for storing pre-fetched workflow data upon detecting that the user information handling system has timed-out and before requesting the pre-fetched workflow data.

15. A computer-implemented method for pre-fetching data objects for delivery to a micro-staging device, the method comprising:

receiving a contextual policy at a remote data center to determine pre-fetching of workflow data objects stored at the remote data center;

receiving a pre-fetch request identifying a user information handling system from the micro-staging device;

associating the contextual policy with the user information handling system to be serviced by the pre-fetch request; and

transmitting workflow data objects in response to the pre-fetch request according to the contextual policy;

wherein the contextual policy determines the workflow data objects to be pre-fetched according to;

identification of a project associated with the pre-fetch request; and

identification of the workflow data objects associated with the project.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, the method further comprising:

receiving the contextual policy to determine pre-fetching of workflow data objects stored at the remote data center;

wherein the contextual policy further determines the workflow data objects to be pre-fetched according to a detected presence of another team member information handling systems associated with the project in the traffic area.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, the method further comprising:

receiving the contextual policy to determine pre-fetching of workflow data objects stored at the remote data center;

wherein the contextual policy further determines the workflow data objects to be pre-fetched according to an occurrence of a calendared meeting associated with the project.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, the method further comprising:

receiving a contextual policy to determine pre-fetching of workflow data objects stored at the remote data center;

wherein the contextual policy further determines the workflow data objects to be pre-fetched according to a user-defined command to deliver specified workflow data objects from a priority level.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, the method further comprising:

receiving the pre-fetch request from the micro-staging device; and

receiving a first data request from the user information handling system via the micro-staging device;

wherein the first data request identifies the project associated with the pre-fetch request.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, the method further comprising:

receiving the contextual policy to determine pre-fetching of workflow data objects stored at the remote data center;

wherein the contextual policy further determines the workflow data objects to be pre-fetched according to the recent workstream history of the user information handling system.