MANAGING DOWNLOADS OF LARGE DATA SETS

• US 20150249694A1
• Filed: 12/05/2014
• Published: 09/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Media Gobbler, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Media Gobbler, Inc.
• Inventors: Kinkade, Phillip M., Kantrowitz, Christopher, Dauphinee, Matthew Collin
• Granted Patent: US 9,886,448 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2895 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data provider application, e.g. reverse proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

In a system for downloading large data sets, when a user downloads a project or other large data set from the file sharing service, the user'"'"'s computer first determines whether files in the data set are already resident on local storage. Files that are in a locally connected storage device, including network connected storage devices, are copied to the download location specified for the data set to be downloaded. Files that are not in local storage are then downloaded to the download location specified for the data set. Files in local storage are indexed to facilitate matching with files used in the project. Such indexing is based on processing the media data in the media data files to ensure that there is a match. For example, a signature can be generated from a portion of a file, such as a first block of media data from a file. This signature can be added to an index, along with other information about the file, such as metadata from the file, file names or file identifiers and the like. A matching algorithm processes files in the project to be shared, and matches them against the index.

Claims

1. A process for accelerating the download of files from a remote file sharing service for project containing multiple files, comprising:

determining whether files used in the project are resident on a locally connected storage device but not previously downloaded from the remote file sharing service;

copying files in the locally connected storage device to a download location for the project;

downloading files not in the locally connected storage device to the download location from the remote file sharing service.

2. The process of claim 1, further comprising:

computing a signature from at least a portion of media data from media files on the locally connected storage device; and

matching signatures from files in a project to signatures of files on the locally connected storage device.

3. A computer system implementing the process of claim 1 or 2.

4. An article of manufacture comprising a computer readable storage medium with computer program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium that when processed by a computer instruct the computer to perform the process of claim 1 or 2.