SHADOWING LOCAL ON-PREMISES INFORMATION TO A CLOUD-BASED COMPUTING SYSTEM

• US 20150248435A1
• Filed: 03/01/2014
• Published: 09/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Solheim, Helge Grenager, Larsson, Morgan, Gehrke, Johannes, Hammervold, Kathrine, Bergstrand, Kjetil Krogvig, Rasch-Olsen, Niels Petter
• Granted Patent: US 11,314,556 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing

Abstract

Shadowing of local or remote information to cloud-based computing systems is provided. As content and activities associated with content (e.g., content modification activities, content communication activities, people associated with content, social networking associated with content, etc.) are developed at a local on-premises computing system that is remote from the cloud-based computing system responsible for maintaining the same content and content activities, the local content and activities are shadowed to the cloud-based system at a regular frequency so that the content and activities at the cloud-based system are synchronized and merged with the content and activities at the local system.

Claims

1. A method of synchronizing content from an on-premises computing system to a cloud-based computing system, comprising:

receiving an activity on a content item at the on-premises computing system;

in response to receiving the activity, receiving the content item and one or more activities associated with the content item at the cloud-based computing system; and

synchronizing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item with a corresponding cloud-based content item.

2. The method of claim 1, after receiving an activity on the content item at the on-premises computing system, further comprising:

storing the content item in a content store; and

storing one or more activities associated with the content item in an activity store.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item for relationships between the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item; and

aggregating one or more of the one or more activities into an activity stream associated with the content item.

4. The method of claim 3, prior to analyzing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item, extracting, by an analysis and aggregation system, the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising generating an enterprise graph for the content item as a representation of the content item and one or more activities associated with the content item.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein prior to receiving the content item and one or more activities associated with the content item at the cloud-based computing system, parsing the enterprise graph to determine one or more components of the content item and one or more of the one or more activities associated with the content item that should be pushed to the cloud-based computing system in response to the received activity.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein parsing the enterprise graph to determine one or more components of the content item and one or more of the one or more activities associated with the content item that should be pushed to the cloud-based computing system in response to the received activity includes determining one or more components that are changed in the content item in response to the activity received on the content item, where only the one or more components that are changed in the content item are pushed to the cloud-based computing system for synchronizing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item with a corresponding cloud-based content item.

8. The method of claim 1, prior to receiving the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item at the cloud-based computing system, performing one or more authentication actions for prior to enabling a receiving of the content item and the one or more activities at the cloud-based computing system.

9. The method of claim 1, prior to synchronizing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item with a corresponding cloud-based content item, receiving the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item via a receiver application programming interface (API) at the cloud-based computing system.

10. The method of claim 1, prior to synchronizing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item with a corresponding cloud-based content item, retrieving the corresponding cloud-based content item, and passing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item and the cloud-based content item to a synchronization system or synchronization processing.

11. The method of claim 10, prior to retrieving the corresponding cloud-based content item,

analyzing the cloud-based content item and one or more activities associated with the cloud-based content item content item for relationships between the cloud-based content item and the one or more activities associated with the cloud-based content item;

aggregating one or more of the one or more activities associated with the cloud-based content item into an activity stream associated with the cloud-based content item; and

generating an enterprise graph for the cloud-based content item as a representation of the cloud-based content item and one or more activities associated with the cloud-based content item.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein prior to synchronizing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item with a corresponding cloud-based content item, parsing the enterprise graph for the cloud-based content item to determine one or more components of the cloud-based content item and one or more of the one or more activities associated with the cloud-based content item that should be synchronized with the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item received from the on-premises system.

13. The method of claim 1, after synchronizing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item with a corresponding cloud-based content item, storing a synchronized content item and one or more activities associated with the synchronized content item and indexing the synchronized content item and one or more activities associated with the content item for subsequent searching directed to the synchronized content item.

14. The method of claim 13, in response to receiving a request for access to the synchronized content item, providing the synchronized content item and allowing user interaction with and modification to the synchronized content item.

15. The method of claim 13,

in response to receiving a search directed to the content item at the on-premises computing system or directed to the corresponding synchronized content item, parsing a cloud-based index containing information about both the content item at the on-premises computing system and about the corresponding synchronized content item;

and

returning a search result that allows access to either the content item at the on-premises system or the corresponding synchronized content item regardless of whether the on-premises content item is stored at the on-premises system.

16. A method of synchronizing content from an on-premises computing system to a cloud-based computing system, comprising:

receiving an activity on a content item at the on-premises computing system;

in response to receiving the activity, receiving information about the content item and one or more activities associated with the content item at the cloud-based computing system;

using the information about the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item, synchronizing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item with a corresponding cloud-based content item; and

indexing the information about the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item along with information about the corresponding cloud-based content item at the cloud-based computing system.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

analyzing the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item for relationships between the content item and the one or more activities associated with the content item; and

aggregating one or more of the one or more activities into an activity stream associated with the content item.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein prior to receiving information about the content item and one or more activities associated with the content item at the cloud-based computing system, parsing an enterprise graph generated for the content item as a representation of the content item and one or more activities associated with the content item to determine one or more components of the content item and one or more of the one or more activities associated with the content item for which information should be received at the cloud-based computing system in response to the received activity on the content item at the on-premises computing system.

19. The method of claim 16,

in response to receiving a search or analysis directed to the content item at the on-premises computing system or directed to the corresponding cloud-based content item, parsing a cloud-based index containing information about both content item at the on-premises computing system and about the corresponding cloud-based content item;

and

returning a search or analysis result that allows access to either the content item at the on-premises system or the cloud-based content item regardless of whether the on-premises content item is stored at the on-premises system.

20. A system for synchronizing content from an on-premises computing system to a cloud-based computing system, comprising:

at the cloud-based computing system, a content shadowing system having;

a content information receiving API operable to request information about an on-premises based content item and one or more activities associated with the on-premises based content item when an activity directed to the on-premises based content item is received;

an analysis and aggregation system operable to aggregate information about a cloud-based content item corresponding to the on-premises based content item; and

a synchronization system operable to synchronize the aggregated information about a cloud-based content item with the information about the on-premises based content item and one or more activities associated with the on-premises based content item, the synchronization system being further operable to generate an index of information about the on-premises based content item and the corresponding cloud-based content item such that cloud-based information requests directed to either the on-premises based content item or the corresponding cloud-based content item may be responded to regardless of whether the on-premises based content item and the corresponding cloud-based content item are stored at disparate locations.