MESH-MANAGING DATA ACROSS A DISTRIBUTED SET OF DEVICES

• US 20150319247A1
• Filed: 07/16/2015
• Published: 11/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Moromisato, George P., Edelstein, Noah B., Parasnis, Abhay V., Andrews, Anthony D., Ozzie, Raymond E., Devlin, William D., Sagar, Akash J.
• Application Number:
  US14/801,186
• Publication Number:
  US 20150319247A1
• 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: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.

Claims

1. A method performed on any client computing device of a plurality of client computing devices that are each associated with a user, the method comprising:

determining, by the any client computing device in response to a request to access data that is stored at any of a plurality of storage locations that includes cloud storage and a local memory store of each of the plurality of client computing devices, a storage location of the plurality of storage locations at which the data is stored, where, via an object, the data is associated with an application corresponding to the data and with a user interface corresponding to the application, and where the cloud storage is distinct from each of the local memory stores; and

accessing, by the any client computing device, the stored data from the determined storage location.

2. The method of claim 1 where the accessing is based at least in part on an identifier of the user.

3. The method of claim 1 where the determined storage location is distinct from the any client computing device.

4. The method of claim 1 where the stored data is owned by the user instead of by any of the storage locations.

5. The method of claim 1 where the stored data is accessed by a user via a user interface provided by the any client computing device.

6. The method of claim 1 where the cloud storage is provided by a service.

7. The method of claim 1 where the determined storage location is the cloud storage.

8. Any client computing device of a plurality of client computing devices that are each associated with a user, the any client computing device comprising:

a local memory store;

a processor configured to determine, in response to a request to access data that is stored at any of a plurality of storage locations that includes cloud storage and the local memory store of each of the plurality of client computing devices, a storage location of the plurality of storage locations at which the data is stored, where, via an object, the data is associated with an application corresponding to the data and with a user interface corresponding to the application, and where the cloud storage is distinct from each of the local memory stores; and

the any client computing device configured to access the stored data from the determined storage location.

9. The any client computing device of claim 8 where the stored data is accessed by the any client computing device based at least in part on an identifier of the user.

10. The any client computing device of claim 8 where the determined storage location is distinct from the any client computing device.

11. The any client computing device of claim 8 where the stored data is owned by the user instead of by any of the storage locations.

12. The any client computing device of claim 8 where the stored data is accessed by a user via a user interface provided by the any client computing device.

13. The any client computing device of claim 8 where the cloud storage is provided by a service.

14. The any client computing device of claim 8 where the determined storage location is the cloud storage.

15. At least one computer storage hardware device that comprises instructions that, based on execution by any client computing device of a plurality of client computing devices that are each associated with a user, configure the any computing device to perform actions comprising:

determining, by the any client computing device in response to a request to access data that is stored at any of a plurality of storage locations that includes cloud storage and a local memory store of each of the plurality of client computing devices, a storage location of the plurality of storage locations at which the data is stored, where, via an object, the data is associated with an application corresponding to the data and with a user interface corresponding to the application, and where the cloud storage is distinct from each of the local memory stores; and

accessing, by the any client computing device, the stored data from the determined storage location.

16. The at least one computer storage hardware device of claim 15 where the accessing is based at least in part on an identifier of the user.

17. The at least one computer storage hardware device of claim 15 where the determined storage location is distinct from the any client computing device.

18. The at least one computer storage hardware device of claim 15 where the stored data is owned by the user instead of by any of the storage locations.

19. The at least one computer storage hardware device of claim 15 where the stored data is accessed by a user via a user interface provided by the any client computing device.

20. The at least one computer storage hardware device of claim 15 where the cloud storage is provided by a service, or where the determined storage location is the cloud storage.