Data management system and method

• US 7,796,640 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2004
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: Ivor Systems LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Walsh, Sandy, Giroux, Philippe
• Primary Examiner(s): Sam; Phirin
• Application Number:
  US10/880,459
• Publication Number:
  US 20040243574A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,266 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/254 Extract, transform and load [ETL] procedures, e.g. ETL data flows in data warehouses
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method of replicating data on a source to a destination comprising the steps of: extracting data from a source via a user interface in a source format; converting the extracted data from the source'"'"'s format into a destination format; and uploading the converted data to said destination.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing a first personal account at a first location through an interface by accessing user information associated with the first personal account and providing the user information via the interface, wherein the first personal account is accessed by a server, and wherein the first personal account comprises an e-mail account;

extracting data in a first format from said first personal account at said first location via the interface;

converting said extracted data from said first format into a second format;

uploading said converted data in said second format to a second personal account at a second location;

extracting an e-mail folder structure from the first location; and

replicating the e-mail folder structure at the second location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the user information comprises accessing logon information corresponding to the first personal account, and wherein providing the user information comprises transmitting said logon information to said first location through the interface.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the first personal account at the first location comprises accessing the first personal account at a first web server, and further wherein uploading said converted data at the second location comprises uploading said converted data to a second web server.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to said first location.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising

requesting a uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the first location;

requesting an account identification corresponding to the first personal account; and

requesting a password corresponding to the first personal account.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said extracting of the data is performed over a telecommunications network.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the first personal account includes accessing the first personal account by a proxy server.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising auto forwarding e-mail received at said first location to said second location after the data is extracted from the first personal account.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the first personal account includes accessing the first personal account through a wireless connection.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising parsing further data from said extracted data.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein parsing the further data includes parsing one or more of personal data or data presenting an organizational structure.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein said parsing comprises using a delta technique to obtain the pertinent data.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein said parsing comprises

subtracting template information from the extracted data to identify the pertinent data.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein said parsing comprises recognizing a type of the extracted data based on one or more of positional information, a tag, and a sequence.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein said parsing comprises:

comparing a data file including the extracted data to a data template; and

extracting non-template data from the data file to obtain the pertinent data.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein said parsing comprises extracting formatting code from a markup language data file to obtain the pertinent data.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein extracting the data comprises extracting said data in a hypertext markup language (HTML) format.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said converting comprises:

parsing pertinent data from the extracted data, wherein the extracted data comprises HTML web page data;

storing said pertinent data in an intermediate format; and

compiling said stored pertinent data into said second format.

19. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

transmitting a request for the data to the first web server through the interface; and

receiving the data as web page data in said first format.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising logging on to said second personal account via an Internet connection.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing one or more details corresponding to one or more of said accessing, said extracting of the data, said converting, or said uploading operations.

22. A computer-readable memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution, cause a computing device to:

access a first personal account at a first location through an interface by accessing user information associated with the first personal account and providing the user information via the interface, wherein the first personal account comprises a first e-mail account;

extract data in a first format from said first personal account at said first location via the interface;

convert said extracted data from said first format into a second format;

upload said converted data in said second format to a second personal account at a second location;

extract an e-mail folder structure from the first location; and

replicate the e-mail folder structure at the second location.

23. The computer-readable memory of claim 22, wherein the instructions, in response to execution, further cause the computing device to parse said extracted data to identify pertinent data.

24. The computer-readable memory of claim 22, wherein the second personal account comprises a second e-mail account, and further wherein the instructions, in response to execution, further cause the computing device to identify, after the data is extracted from the first personal account, an e-mail sent to the first personal account.

25. The computer-readable memory of claim 24, wherein the instructions, in response to execution, further cause the computing device to forward the identified e-mail to the second personal account.

26. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a core reader/writer in communication with the processor, wherein the core reader/writer is configured to

access a first personal account at a first location through an interface by accessing user information associated with the first personal account and providing the user information via the interface, wherein the first personal account comprises an e-mail account;

extract data in a first format from said first personal account at said first location via the interface;

convert said extracted data from said first format into a second format;

upload said converted data in said second format to a second personal account at a second location;

extract an e-mail folder structure from the first location; and

replicate the e-mail folder structure at the second location.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the core reader/writer is further configured to:

receive logon information corresponding to the second personal account; and

log in to the second personal account using the received logon information.

28. The system of claim 26, wherein the user information comprises logon information corresponding to the first personal account, and further wherein providing the user information comprises transmitting said logon information to said first location through the interface.