System and method for storage service

• US 8,538,920 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Issued: 09/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Laursen, Dana E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Coby, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US13/205,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20130041873A1
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• Field of Search: 707/626, 707/638, 707600-602, 707/693, 719/316
• US Class Current: 707/626
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1827 Management specifically adapted to NAS management of storage area networks [SAN] G06F3/067

Abstract

A storage service stores data from a network device. A data collector retrieves the data for the storage service based on reference data passed to the storage service from the network device.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions comprising:

a storage service to receive a request from a client computer via a network, the request being to store data, the request including reference data generated at the client computer that identifies an address of the data, the storage service comprising;

a data collector to pull the data via the network for the storage service based on the reference data in response to the request to store the data;

wherein the storage service is further to store the data in a data store in response to the data collector pulling the data.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data collector is further to pull the data via the network from the address of the data included in the reference data.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the reference data includes a number of bytes to be retrieved from the address.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the reference data includes an end of file code to enable the data collector to determine when to stop transferring data.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the address is a universal resource locator (URL) address or a file transfer protocol (FTP) address for identifying the location of the data.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data collector is further to delay the pull of the data until the storage service has sufficient available bandwidth on the network.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the data collector is further to initiate the pull of the data at a time specified in a schedule.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data collector employs a network get command to retrieve the data from the client computer.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the data collector employs a security protocol to pass the data through a firewall of the network to access the data file when using the network get command.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the security protocol includes a secure socket layer, a trusted certificate, or an encrypted channel to pass through the firewall of the network.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising a publishing application that utilizes the storage service to retrieve files for a document generator utilizing the reference data.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data collector is further to delay the pull of the data until sufficient processing cycles are available at the storage service.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the time specified in the schedule is at least one hour after a time that the request to store the data is received from the at the storage service.

12. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a storage service computer, a request to store a data block from a client computer;

receiving, by the storage service computer, a reference address to the data block from the client computer, wherein the reference address includes data identifying a location for the data block and the reference address is generated by the client computer;

associating, by the storage service computer, the reference address of the data block to a storage service data location;

pulling, by the storage service computer, the data block by utilizing the reference address; and

storing the data block at the storage service data location.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the reference address includes a block length parameter or an end of file parameter with the reference address to determine an end of the data block.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the pulling further comprising executing, at the storage service computer, a get command to acquire the data block from the client computer.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising utilizing a security protocol in conjunction with the get command to acquire the data from the client computer.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising delaying, by the storage service computer, the pulling until sufficient processing cycles are available at the storage service.

16. A system, comprising:

a memory for storing computer executable instructions; and

a processing unit for accessing the memory and executing the computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions comprising;

a storage service to receive a request via a network from a client computer to store data at the storage service, the request comprising a reference name that characterizes an address of the data, wherein the reference data is generated by the client computer, wherein the reference name comprises a file length parameter that specifies a length of the data; and

a data collector to;

process the reference data; and

pull the data via the network according to the address of the data specified by the reference data and the file length parameter.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the data collector is further to delay the pull of the data until sufficient processing cycles of the processing unit are available.