SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING FILES IN A CLOUD-BASED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20140259005A1
• Filed: 03/07/2014
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Air Computing, Inc. (Redbooth, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Air Computing, Inc. (Redbooth, Inc.)
• Inventors: Jeffrey, Mark Christopher, Wang, Weihan
• Application Number:
  US14/201,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20140259005A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1076 Resource dissemination mechanisms or network resource keeping policies for optimal resource availability in the overlay network
• 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 method for collecting updates for a plurality of objects over a cloud data network includes: determining a set of remote devices known to have updates for a selected object, wherein each of said remote devices maintains a set of locally updated objects that includes the selected object; and downloading the updates for the selected object from said set of remote devices. Where said downloading the updates for the selected object results in a name conflict, the method further includes resolving said name conflict, wherein said resolving includes selecting said selected object as a target and said existing object as an alias having a pointer relationship to the target; and merging all meta-data of the alias object into the target.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions for collecting updates for a plurality of objects over a cloud data network, the instructions, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to perform:

determining a set of remote devices known to have updates for a selected object, wherein each of said remote devices maintains a set of locally updated objects that includes the selected object; and

downloading the updates for the selected object from said set of remote devices over the data network.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said set of locally updated objects is represented as Bloom filters.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said set of locally updated objects is maintained as a queue having a minimum number of updated objects, an end number of updated objects, and a current object to be collected at a head of the queue.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 3, further comprising inserting a new updated object into said set of locally updated objects following the end number of updated objects that is independent of the current object to be collected.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising deleting said selected object, wherein said selected object includes an expelled label and said downloading the updates includes unsynchronizing said plurality of objects having an expelled label.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said downloading the updates for the selected object results in a name conflict that occurs when said selected object is referenced using a logical name, wherein an existing object that is different than said selected object is referenced using said logical name.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, further comprising resolving said name conflict, wherein said resolving includes:

designating one of said selected object and said existing object as a target;

assigning the undesignated object as an alias having a pointer relationship to the target; and

merging all meta-data of the alias object into the target.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein said resolving a name conflict comprises modeling said selected object with said logical name and said existing object with said logical name as states having transitions between the states.

9. A computer-implemented method for collecting updates for a plurality of objects over a cloud data network comprising:

determining a set of remote devices known to have updates for a selected object, wherein each of said remote devices maintains a set of locally updated objects that includes the selected object; and

downloading the updates for the selected object from said set of remote devices over the data network.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein said set of locally updated objects is represented as Bloom filters.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein said set of locally updated objects is maintained as a queue having a minimum number of updated objects, an end number of updated objects, and a current object to be collected at a head of the queue.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising inserting a new updated object into said set of locally updated objects following the end number of updated objects that is independent of the current object to be collected.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising deleting said selected object, wherein said selected object includes an expelled label and said downloading the updates includes unsynchronizing said plurality of objects having an expelled label.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein said downloading the updates for the selected object results in a name conflict that occurs when said selected object is referenced using a logical name, wherein an existing object that is different than said selected object is referenced using said logical name.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising resolving said name conflict, wherein said resolving includes:

designating one of said selected object and said existing object as a target;

assigning the undesignated object as an alias having a pointer relationship to the target; and

merging all meta-data of the alias object into the target.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein said resolving a name conflict comprises modeling said selected object with said logical name and said existing object with said logical name as states having transitions between the states.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions for resolving a name conflict between a first object and a second object being different than the first object, both of said first object and said second object being referenced by a logical name, the instructions, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to perform:

designating one of said selected object and said existing object as a target;

assigning the undesignated object as an alias having a pointer relationship to the target; and

merging all meta-data of the alias object into the target.

18. A computer-implemented method for resolving a name conflict between a first object and a second object being different than the first object, both of said first object and said second object being referenced by a logical name comprising:

designating one of said selected object and said existing object as a target;

assigning the undesignated object as an alias having a pointer relationship to the target; and

merging all meta-data of the alias object into the target.