METHOD FOR STORING DATA BY USING CLOUD SERVICES AND APPARATUS THEREOF

• US 20150347404A1
• Filed: 06/02/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHANG, Kyung-ah, KIM, Sang-lae, YUN, Jeong-hyun
• Granted Patent: US 10,339,182 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/183 Provision of network file services by network file servers, e.g. by using NFS, CIFS network file access protocols H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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 67/1097 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]

Abstract

A method of storing data includes receiving, by a network storage server, a request for transmitting a file from an external apparatus; obtaining information about a cloud storage, in which the file is stored; receiving the file from the cloud storage, based on the information about the cloud storage; and transmitting the received file to the external apparatus.

Claims

1. A method of storing data, the method comprising:

receiving, by a network storage server, a request for transmitting a file from an external apparatus;

obtaining information about a cloud storage, in which the file is stored;

receiving the file from the cloud storage, based on the information about the cloud storage; and

transmitting the received file to the external apparatus.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the file received from the cloud storage in the network storage server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the file from the cloud storage comprises:

determining whether the file is stored in the network storage server;

selectively requesting the cloud storage for the file according to a result of the determining; and

receiving the file from the cloud storage.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the external apparatus, a request for storing a certain file, stored in the external apparatus, in the cloud storage;

receiving the certain file, stored in the external device, from the external apparatus; and

storing the received certain file in the cloud storage.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the request for transmitting the file comprises:

transmitting, to the external apparatus, information about at least one file transmittable from the cloud storage to the network storage server; and

receiving the request for transmitting the file, according to a selection by a user, from among the at least one file.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information about the at least one file is received from the cloud storage.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the network storage server comprises a home electronic apparatus, the home electronic apparatus comprising at least one from among a storage apparatus, a network apparatus, and a control apparatus.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program comprising instructions, which, when executed by a computer, performs the method of claim 1.

8. A network storage server comprising:

a storage configured to store at least one program;

a transceiver configured to transmit and receive data; and

a controller configured to execute the at least one program to control at least one from among the storage and the transceiver, wherein

the controller is configured to receive a request for transmitting a file from an external apparatus through the transceiver, obtain information from the storage about a cloud storage, in which the file is stored, receive the file from the cloud storage through the transceiver, based on the information about the cloud storage, and transmit the received file to the external apparatus.

9. The network storage server of claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to store the file received from the cloud storage in the storage of the network storage server.

10. The network storage server of claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to determine whether the file is stored in the network storage server, selectively request the cloud storage for the file according to a result of determining whether the file is stored in the network storage server, and receive the file from the cloud storage.

11. The network storage server of claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to receive, through the transceiver, a request for storing a certain file, stored in the external apparatus, in the cloud storage, receive the certain file, from the external apparatus, and store the certain file in the cloud storage.

12. The network storage server of claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to transmit, to the external apparatus, information about at least one file transmittable from the cloud storage to the network storage server, and receive the request for transmitting the file, according to a selection by a user from among the at least one file.

13. The network storage server of claim 12, wherein the information about at least one file is received from the cloud storage.

14. The network storage server of claim 8, wherein the network storage server comprises a home electronic apparatus, the home electronic apparatus comprising at least one from among a storage apparatus, a network apparatus, and a control apparatus.

16. An electronic apparatus comprising:

at least one memory operable to store program code;

at least one processor operable to read the program code and operate as instructed by the program code, the program code including;

code that causes the at least one processor to obtain cloud storage service provider information that identifies a cloud storage service provider, in which a file is stored, among a plurality of cloud storage service providers, in response to receiving a request for the file from an external apparatus;

code that causes the at least one processor to receive the file from the cloud storage service provider based on the cloud storage service provider information; and

code that causes the at least one processor to transmit the received file to the external apparatus.

17. The electronic apparatus of claim 16, wherein the request for the file includes identification information of the file, and the cloud storage service provider information is obtained by using the identification information of the file.

18. The electronic apparatus of claim 16, wherein the cloud storage service provider information comprises uniform resource locator (URL) at which the file is accessible through the cloud storage service provider.

19. The electronic apparatus of claim 16, wherein information about at least one file, which is stored in the cloud storage service provider, is stored in the at least one memory, and the information about the at least one file is updated in response to a change to the at least one file in the cloud storage service provider.

20. The electronic apparatus of claim 16, wherein the information about the at least one file comprises at least one from among file identification information, file attribute information, file access information, and information on whether the at least one file is stored in the at least one memory.