Communicating Data Among Personal Clouds

• US 20140089526A1
• Filed: 09/27/2012
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Schmidt, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,450,784 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/249
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

A gateway device performs authentication with an interconnect system that coordinates communication of data among a plurality of personal clouds. The gateway device is part of a first personal cloud that includes electronic devices. Data is communicated between the first personal cloud and at least a second personal cloud based on information in the interconnect system, wherein the communication is performed according to at least one rule provided at the gateway device, wherein the at least one rule includes at least one criterion relating to data to be shared among the plurality of personal clouds.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

performing, by a gateway device, authentication with an interconnect system that coordinates communication of data among a plurality of personal clouds, wherein the gateway device is part of a first personal cloud that includes electronic devices;

communicating data between the first personal cloud and at least a second personal cloud based on information in the interconnect system, wherein the communication is performed according to at least one rule provided at the gateway device, wherein the at least one rule includes at least one criterion relating to data to be shared among the plurality of personal clouds.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating the data comprises securely tunneling the data among the personal clouds through a network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating the data comprises pulling the data from at least the second personal cloud according to the at least one rule.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating the data comprises pushing the data to at least the second personal cloud according to the at least one rule.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating the data comprises accepting a pull attempt from at least the second personal cloud according to the at least one rule.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating the data comprises accepting a push attempt from at least the second personal cloud according to the at least one rule.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating the data comprises communicating the data through the interconnect system.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the interconnect system does not process the communicated data.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing data to be shared between personal clouds at a storage device accessible by the interconnect system.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic devices and the gateway device of the first personal cloud are part of an arrangement in which the electronic devices include human machine interface shells.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication of data is in a distributed data sharing arrangement wherein data is served from the personal clouds.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication of data comprises communicating measurement information of a sensor in the first personal cloud.

13. A computer-readable storage device having computer-readable code executable by at least one processor of a gateway device to perform the method of claim 1.

14. A system comprising:

an authentication server configured to authenticate personal clouds that are configured to share data, wherein the authentication server authenticates a first personal cloud by interacting with a gateway device of the first personal cloud that includes electronic devices;

at least one processor configured to route data among the personal clouds according to rules provided at gateway devices in the personal clouds.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the personal cloud interconnect system does not process the data.

16. The system of claim 14, further configured to support data sharing that includes communication of the data that is stored in a distributed manner at personal cloud devices in the personal clouds.

17. The system of claim 14, further configured to support social networking interaction that includes communication of the data that is stored in a distributed manner at personal cloud devices in the personal clouds.

18. The system of claim 14, further comprising a storage system configured to store a data structure that maps contact names to corresponding network addresses, wherein data packets are routed among the personal clouds with the network addresses.