REPLICATION OF CONTENT TO ONE OR MORE SERVERS

• US 20160119420A1
• Filed: 01/07/2016
• Published: 04/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Abuelsaad, Kelly, DeLuca, Lisa Seacat, Jang, Soobaek, Krook, Daniel C.
• Granted Patent: US 10,554,744 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

An approach is provided to automatically replicate content to certain servers in a networking environment based on, amongst other metrics, location of third parties accessing information in a social networking environment. The approach includes obtaining content from a user within a networked environment and analyzing information of one or more third parties that have access to the networked environment and who have an association with the user. The approach further includes replicating the content to one or more servers within the networked environment based on the analyzed information of the one or more third parties.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining content from a user within a networked environment;

analyzing information of one or more third parties that have access to the networked environment and who have an association with the user; and

replicating the content to one or more servers within the networked environment based on the analyzed information of the one or more third parties.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzed information is a location of the one or more third parties and the replicating of the content comprises replicating the content on one or more servers closest to the location of the one or more third parties.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the analyzed information is one or more preferences of the one or more third parties; and

the replicating of the content comprises replicating the content on one or more servers closest to a location of any of the one or more third parties that have a preference indicative of wanting to view the content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the analyzed information is historical patterns of the one or more third parties; and

replicating the content comprises replicating the content on one or more servers closest to a location of any of the one or more third parties that have historical usage patterns showing a pattern indicative of wanting to view similar content to the content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzed information is a type of content previously reviewed by the one or more third parties.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the replicating the content is based on a portion of the third parties being at a certain location, and the portion is above a predetermined threshold

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the predetermined threshold is a percentage of the one or more third parties being above a certain percentage of all third parties associated with the user within a social network.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the predetermined threshold is a number of the one or more third parties being above a certain number of third parties associated with the user within a social network.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the networked environment is a social network within a computing environment.

10. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage device having readable program code embodied in the storage device and when executed on a computing system is operable to:

obtain content from a user;

determine locations of third party users wanting to retrieve the content;

determine a nearest server to each of the third party users wanting to retrieve the content; and

replicate the content for storage on the nearest server of each of the third party users wanting to retrieve the content.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the user is within a social network within a computing environment.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computing system is operable to replicate the content based on a portion of the third party users being at a certain location, and the portion is above a predetermined threshold.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the predetermined threshold is a percentage of the one or more third parties being above a certain percentage of all third parties associated with the user within the social network.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the predetermined threshold is a number of the one or more third parties being above a certain number of third parties associated with the user within the social network.