SOCIAL DRIVE FOR SHARING DATA

• US 20160306996A1
• Filed: 12/26/2014
• Published: 10/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: McAfee, LLC
• Original Assignee: McAfee, Inc. (McAfee, LLC)
• Inventors: Gadde, KranthiKumar, Vardhan, Raj, Lefort, Alan Illia, Kulkarni, Dattatraya, Nalluri, Srikanth, Krishnapur, Venkatasubrahmanyam, Dhruw, Kaushal, Halder, Kamlesh, Nayak, Susmita, Kumar, Mitesh
• Application Number:
  US15/101,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20160306996A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive a request to share data, determine metadata for the data to be shared, communicate the metadata to a social drive, where the social drive is separate from the electronic device and the data is not located on the social drive, and communicate the shared data to a member of the social drive when the member requests the data.

Claims

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. At least one machine-readable medium comprising one or more instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

receive a request from a member of a social drive to view data;

determine metadata for the data, wherein the metadata is located on the social drive;

locate the data based on the determined metadata, wherein the data is not located on the social drive; and

communicate the data to the member of the social drive.

27. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein the data is located on an electronic device that communicated the metadata to the social drive.

28. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 27, wherein the social drive includes a plurality of members and a notification was sent to each of the plurality of members when the metadata was communicated to the social drive.

29. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 28, wherein the plurality of members do not have access to the location of the data.

30. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 28, wherein each of the plurality of members can view the data on a unique electronic device.

31. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein the data located in a cache that is separate from the social drive and an electronic device that communicated the metadata to the social drive.

32. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein a notification is sent to an owner of the data when the member requests the data.

33. The at least one computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein access to the data is restricted by an owner of the data.

34. An apparatus comprising:

a unifying data module configured to;

receive a request to share data;

determine metadata for the data to be shared;

communicate the metadata to a social drive, wherein the social drive is separate from the unifying data module and the data is not located on the social drive; and

communicate the shared data to a member of the social drive when the member requests the data.

35. The apparatus of claim 34, wherein the data is located on an electronic device that includes the unifying data module.

36. The apparatus of claim 34, wherein the social drive includes a plurality of members and a notification is sent to each of the plurality of members when the metadata is communicated to the social drive.

37. The apparatus of claim 36, wherein the plurality of members do not have access to the location of the data.

38. The apparatus of claim 36, wherein each of the plurality of members can view the data on a unique electronic device.

39. The apparatus of claim 34, wherein a notification is sent to an owner of the data when the member requests the data.

40. The apparatus of claim 34, wherein access to the data is restricted by an owner of the data.

41. The apparatus of claim 34, wherein the unifying data module is further configured to communicate the shared data to a cache that is separate from the unifying data module and the cache can communicate the shared data to the member when the unifying data module is not available.

43. The method of claim 41, wherein the data is located on the electronic device and the member of the social drive does not have access to the location of the data.

42. A method comprising:

receiving, at an electronic device, a request to share data;

determining metadata for the data to be shared;

communicating the metadata to a social drive, wherein the social drive is separate from the electronic device and the data is not located on the social drive; and

communicating the shared data to a member of the social drive when the member requests the data.

44. A system for sharing data using a social drive, the system comprising:

an integrity verification module configured for;

receiving, at an electronic device, a request to share data;

determining metadata for the data to be shared;

communicating the metadata to a social drive, wherein the social drive is separate from the electronic device and the data is not located on the social drive; and

communicating the shared data to a member of the social drive when the member requests the data.

45. The system of claim 44, wherein the data is located on the electronic device.

46. The system of claim 44, wherein the data is located in a cache that is separate from the electronic device and the social drive.

47. The system of claim 44, wherein the social drive includes a plurality of members and a notification is sent to each of the plurality of members when the metadata is communicated to the social drive.

48. The system of claim 47, wherein the plurality of members do not have access to the location of the data.

49. The system of claim 47, wherein each of the plurality of members can view the data on a unique electronic device.

50. The system of claim 44, wherein a notification is sent to an owner of the data when the member requests the data.