CLOUD MANAGEMENT OF DEVICE MEMORY BASED ON GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION

• US 20140164721A1
• Filed: 02/25/2013
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chakra, Al, Feller, John A., Hewitt, Trudy L., Schembari, Francesco C.
• Granted Patent: US 8,966,196 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/160
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/122 of the least frequently used [LFU] type, e.g. with individual count value
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5016 the resource being the memory

Abstract

A method for managing memory of a device is disclosed. A computer system collects information about use, by the device, of data in the memory of the device. The information collected by the computer system includes a time and a location for which each portion of the data is used by the device. The computer system identifies patterns of use, by the device, of each portion of the data based on the information collected. The computer system then selects one or more portions of the data that are not needed in the memory of the device based on the patterns of use by the device.

Claims

1. A method for managing memory of a device, the method comprising:

collecting, by a computer system, information about use, by the device, of data in the memory of the device, the information including a time and a location for which each portion of the data is used by the device;

identifying, by the computer system, patterns of use, by the device, of each portion of the data based on the information collected; and

selecting, by the computer system, one or more portions of the data that are not needed in the memory of the device based on the patterns of use by the device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending the one or more portions of the data to remote storage in a network.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

removing the one or more portions of the data from the memory of the device.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

selecting, by the computer system, another one or more portions of the data that are needed in the memory of the device based on the patterns of use by the device; and

determining, by the computer system, whether or not the another one or more portions of the data are currently located in the memory of the device, and if not, retrieving the another one or more portions of the data from the remote storage.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about use, by the device, of the data in the memory of the device collected by the computer system additionally includes users of the device during the time at the location for which each portion of the data was used by the device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data includes one or more of applications, documents, photos, audio recordings, videos, email, and device specific information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying, by the computer system, the patterns of use, by the device, of each portion of the data is further based on a frequency of use of each portion of the data, wherein the frequency of use is based on the time and the location of each respective use.

8. The method of claim 2 wherein the information about use, by the device, of data in the memory of the device further comprises corresponding available bandwidth of networking devices of the network during the time at the location for which each portion of the data was used by the device, and wherein identifying, by the computer system, the patterns of use, by the device, of each portion of the data is further based on the available bandwidth of the networking devices.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting, by the computer system, the one or more portions of the data that are not needed in the memory of the device based on the patterns of use, by the device, is further based on user selected preferences for one or more of a time frame for obtaining selected portions of the data from a network, a distance of the device from a selected location, a type of data of the one or more portions, a subject of the one or more portions, a size of the one or more portions, and a selected application.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein selecting, by the computer system, the one or more portions of the data that are not needed in the memory of the device based on the patterns of use, by the device, is further based on user selected preferences of the users of the device in calendar entries of each respective user.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein one or more of the calendar entries include a particular location where the device will be located, a period of time that the device will be at the location, and an identification of each portion of data required for use by the device at the location for the period of time.

12. The method of claim 2, wherein the device is a mobile computing device, the location is a geographical location, and the remote storage is provided by a cloud computing platform.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer system is one or more computer systems of a cloud computing node.