INTEGRATION OF A DEVICE WITH A STORAGE NETWORK

• US 20150186073A1
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lyve Minds, Inc. (Seagate Technology Holdings Plc)
• Original Assignee: Lyve Minds, Inc. (Seagate Technology Holdings Plc)
• Inventors: PACURARIU, Mihnea Calin, JUDALEVITCH, Edward, CRISWELL, Jon, VON SNEIDERN, Andreas
• Application Number:
  US14/144,366
• Publication Number:
  US 20150186073A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3212 Monitoring battery levels, e.g. power saving mode being initiated when battery voltage goes below a certain level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/11 File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots file system backup G06F11/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0608 Saving storage space on storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0655 Vertical data movement, i.e. input-output transfer; data movement between one or more hosts and one or more storage devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/274 Storing end-user multimedia data in response to end-user request , e.g. network recorder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44245 Monitoring the upstream path of the transmission network, e.g. its availability, bandwidth
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/65 Control of camera operation in relation to power supply
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A method of integrating a device with a storage network may include generating metadata associated with image files generated by a camera of a device. The method may further include automatically transferring to a storage network the image files and the metadata based a status of the device. The status of the device may include on one or more of power consumption associated with transferring the image files and metadata, battery status of a battery of the device, available storage space on the device, available connectivity paths with the storage network, and a power supply mode of the device.

Claims

1. A method of integrating a device with a storage network, the method comprising:

generating metadata associated with image files generated by a camera of a device;

automatically transferring to a storage network the image files and the metadata based on one or more of power consumption associated with transferring the image files and metadata, battery status of a battery of the device, available storage space on the device, available connectivity paths with the storage network, and a power supply mode of the device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the image files include one or more of still image files and video files.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata includes one or more of:

geolocation data, audio data, device orientation data, a fingerprint uniquely identifying the image files, voice tag data, motion data, biological data, temperature data, time stamp, date stamp, user tag data, barometric pressure data, and people data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling connectivity of the device to one or more of the storage network and a communication network based on one or more of:

power consumption associated with enabling and maintaining the connectivity, battery status, available storage space on the device, available network connectivity paths, and a power supply mode of the device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the communication network enables connectivity to the storage network.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising automatically disconnecting the device from one or more of the communication network and the storage network based on one or more of power consumption associated with maintaining connectivity to one or more of the storage network and the communication network, battery status, available storage space on the device, and a power supply mode of the device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically deleting image files and metadata stored on the device that have been transferred to the storage network.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising transferring the image files in batches to conserve energy.

9. An electronic device comprising:

a camera configured to generate image data;

a processor; and

memory including instructions configured to cause the processor to perform operations for integrating the electronic device with a storage network, the operations comprising;

generating metadata associated with image files generated from the image data;

automatically transferring to a storage network the image files and the metadata based on one or more of power consumption associated with transferring the image files and metadata, battery status of a battery of the device, available storage space on the device, available connectivity paths with the storage network, and a power supply mode of the device.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the image data includes one or more of still image data and video data and wherein the image files include one or more of still image files and video files.

11. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the electronic device includes one or more of a microphone, a global positioning system (GPS) sensor, a motion sensor, a biological sensor, a thermometer, a barometric pressure sensor, and a user interface and wherein the metadata includes data derived from one or more of the microphone, the GPS sensor, the motion sensor, the biological sensor, the thermometer, the barometric pressure sensor, and the user interface.

12. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the metadata includes one or more of:

geolocation data, audio data, device orientation data, a fingerprint uniquely identifying the image files, voice tag data, motion data, biological data, temperature data, time stamp, date stamp, user tag data, barometric pressure data, and people data.

13. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise enabling connectivity of the device to one or more of a communication network and the storage network based on one or more of power consumption associated with enabling and maintaining the connectivity, battery status, available storage space on the device, available network connectivity paths, and a power supply mode of the device.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the communication network enables connectivity to the storage network.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise automatically disconnecting the device from one or more of the communication network and the storage network based on one or more of power consumption associated with maintaining connectivity to one or more of the storage network and the communication network, battery status, available storage space on the device, and a power supply mode of the device.

16. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the device includes a storage block configured to store the image files and the metadata and the operations further comprise automatically deleting image files and metadata stored on the storage block that have been transferred to the storage network.

17. A computer-readable storage medium configured to store instructions configured to cause a processor to perform operations for integrating an electronic device with a storage network, the operations comprising:

generating metadata associated with image files generated by a camera of a device;

automatically transferring to a storage network the image files and the metadata based on one or more of power consumption associated with transferring the image files and metadata, battery status of a battery of the device, available storage space on the device, available connectivity paths with the storage network, and a power supply mode of the device.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the image files include one or more of still image files and video files.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the metadata includes one or more of:

geolocation data, audio data, device orientation data, a fingerprint uniquely identifying the image files, voice tag data, motion data, biological data, temperature data, time stamp, date stamp, user tag data, barometric pressure data, and people data.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise enabling connectivity of the device to one or more of the storage network and a communication network based on one or more of power consumption associated with enabling and maintaining the connectivity, battery status, available storage space on the device, available network connectivity paths, and a power supply mode of the device.