Data locker synchronization

• US 9,061,202 B1
• Filed: 02/28/2014
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Frazzini, Michael Anthony, Evans, Ethan Zane
• Primary Examiner(s): TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN
• Application Number:
  US14/193,704
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 463/9, 463/12, 463/20, 463/25, 463/42, 463/43
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/554 by saving game or status data
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/24 Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for video games A63F13/00; computerized gaming systems G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1085 involving dynamic management of active down- or uploading connections
• 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 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments enabling a saved state of an application to be stored at a central location and to be retrieved by multiple computing devices executing the application. Accordingly, saved states of applications and interfaces are also enabled to follow a user from one personal computing device to the next.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computer systems, configure the one or more computer systems to perform operations comprising:

obtaining entitlement data for a current user of an application of a computing device from an entitlement locker at a remote network storage location;

prompting the current user to select a date from a plurality of dates corresponding to instances when a plurality of saved state data files for the application was previously transferred to the entitlement locker utilizing the entitlement data;

obtaining a copy of a saved state data file for the application from the entitlement locker corresponding to the date selected by the current user; and

providing the copy of the saved state data file retrieved from the entitlement locker to the application, wherein upon launching the application, the application resumes to a state of the entitlement data that corresponds to the saved state data file for the application.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1,

the operations further comprising replacing a saved state data file for the application that is stored locally with the copy of the saved state data file obtained from the entitlement locker.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

logging off the current user from the computing device after detecting a designated period of inactivity on the computing device;

triggering transference of the copy of the saved state data file for the application to the entitlement locker; and

in response to the copy of the saved state data file not being able to be transferred to the entitlement locker due to the computing device being offline, sending the saved state data file upon the computing device regaining connectivity with the entitlement locker.

4. A system comprising:

a computing device; and

a locker management application executable in the computing device, the locker management application comprising;

logic that retrieves entitlement data for a current user of an application of the computing device from an entitlement locker at a remote network storage location;

logic that prompts the current user to select a date from a plurality of dates corresponding to instances when a plurality of saved state data files for the application was previously transferred to the entitlement locker utilizing the entitlement data;

logic that retrieves a copy of a saved state data file for the application from the entitlement locker corresponding to the date selected by the current user; and

logic that provides the copy of the saved state data file retrieved from the entitlement locker to the application, wherein upon launching the application, the application resumes to a state of the entitlement data that corresponds to the saved state data file for the application.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the entitlement data comprises electronic book media.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the entitlement data comprises a video file or an audio file.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the entitlement data comprises a software game.

8. The system of claim 4, further comprising logic that replaces a saved state data file for the application that is stored locally with the copy of the saved state data file retrieved from the entitlement locker.

9. The system of claim 4, wherein the current user is a sub-account holder to a primary account holder, wherein in response to verifying that the entitlement data is included in an entitlement locker of the primary account holder, the saved state data file in the entitlement locker is transferred to the application.

10. The system of claim 4, wherein the copy of the saved state data file that is retrieved from the entitlement locker is provided to the computing device and is intended for a first copy of the application executing on the computing device, wherein the copy of the saved state data file was transferred to the entitlement locker from a second copy of the application executing on a prior client computing device.

11. The system of claim 4, further comprising:

logic that logs off the current user from the computing device after detecting a designated period of inactivity on the computing device; and

logic that triggers transference of the copy of the saved state data file for the application to the entitlement locker.

12. A method comprising:

obtaining, by a computing device, entitlement data for a current user of an application of the computing device from an entitlement locker at a remote network storage location;

prompting, by the computing device, the current user to select a date from a plurality of dates corresponding to instances when a plurality of saved state data files for the application was previously transferred to the entitlement locker utilizing the entitlement data;

obtaining, by the computing device, a copy of a saved state data file for the application from the entitlement locker corresponding to the date selected by the current user; and

providing, by the computing device, the copy of the saved state data file retrieved from the entitlement locker to the application, wherein upon launching the application, the application resumes to a state of the entitlement data that corresponds to the saved state data file for the application.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the entitlement data comprises electronic book media.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the entitlement data comprises a video file or an audio file.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the entitlement data comprises a software game.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising replacing a saved state data file for the application that is stored locally with the copy of the saved state data file obtained from the entitlement locker.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the current user is a sub-account holder to a primary account holder, the method further comprising, in response to verifying that the entitlement data is included in an entitlement locker of the primary account holder, transferring the saved state data file in the entitlement locker to the application.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the copy of the saved state data file that is retrieved from the entitlement locker is provided to the computing device and is intended for a first copy of the application executing on the computing device, wherein the copy of the saved state data file was transferred to the entitlement locker from a second copy of the application executing on a prior client computing device.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

logging off the current user from the computing device after detecting a designated period of inactivity on the computing device; and

triggering a transference of the copy of the saved state data file for the application to the entitlement locker.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising, in response to the copy of the saved state data file not being able to be transferred to the entitlement locker due to the computing device being offline, sending the saved state data file upon the computing device regaining connectivity with the entitlement locker.