Method and system for asynchronous transmission, backup, distribution of data and file sharing

• US 6,662,198 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2001
• Issued: 12/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Zoteca Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Zoteca Incorporated
• Inventors: Shtull-Trauring, Itamar, Satyanarayanan, Mahadev
• Primary Examiner(s): Rones, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mofiz, Apu M
• Application Number:
  US09/942,659
• Publication Number:
  US 20030046260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• Field of Search: 707/10, 707/201, 707/203, 707/204, 370/359, 439/533, 455/3.05, 705/9, 709/204, 709/228, 709/248, 711/161
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/148 File search processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99955 Archiving or backup

Abstract

A system and method is provided for asynchronously sharing, backing up, and distributing data based on immutable entries. The system which is layered upon an existing operating system automatically stores, queues and distributes requested data among users.

Claims

1. A method for inserting data into a database comprising the steps of:

a. installing the system on a node;

b. creating an export folder and scheduling a backup;

c. generating a namespace and encryption key;

d. creating an authentication proxy adapted to retain and store keys;

e. operating system in communication with said node where system has been installed;

f. creating data to be inserted;

g. attempting to insert data from the export folder to the database node;

h. checking for the existence of the data in the local cache;

i. determining whether data exists, so that if data exists the operation terminates, if data does not exist the data is sent to the authentication server and authenticated therein;

j. determining whether authenticated and if namespace exists;

k. determining if namespace exists and the user is authorized, the program determines whether the data has been previously cached by the proxy server, if it has been cached the program will fail, if it hasn'"'"'t been cached, the program will connect to the database;

l. upon connecting, the program will insert the data in the database; and

m. the database checks if this entry exists in the database, if it does there is failure, if it doesn'"'"'t exist, the entry succeeds, if the entry succeeds, the proxy caches the data and the program caches the data.

2. A database as recited in claim 1, further comprising a series of key value entries.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein data once requested by said user from said database is cached locally and once cached said data is available locally without validation.