Smartphone management system and method

• US 9,386,098 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2011
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fidelithon Systems LLC
• Original Assignee: Fidelithon Systems LLC
• Inventors: Reed, Robert F., Allan, Kevin R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Karikari, Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US13/151,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20110306326A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,860 Days
• Field of Search: 455/411, 455/410, 455/414.4, 455/419, 455/418, 455/466
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1461 Backup scheduling policy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1464 for networked environments
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A mobile device management system is described for managing files that are locally generated or stored on the mobile device in a cloud environment. The mobile device is configured with a phone application module, a menu module, and a web browser module to conduct a backup operation of the files on the mobile device to a cloud through a network. The cloud comprises a web server, an authentication server, and a secure storage for authenticating the mobile user'"'"'s access to the cloud, and provide a secure connection to backup the files from the mobile device to the secure storage of the cloud. The mobile device can also upload the files from the mobile device to secure storage of the cloud, which alleviates the burden of carrying a large amount of files on the file storage of the mobile device. In the upload operation, the mobile device deletes the files that have been uploaded to the cloud.

Claims

1. A mobile system for managing information, comprising:

a communication interface configured to send files from a processor of a smartphone to a secure storage on a cloud provider;

a phone management engine having a menu with a plurality of modules, the plurality of modules having an upload module and an administrative module, the upload module configured by the processor to determining if an upload calculation value on the smartphone is greater than or equal to a predetermined upload parameter;

if the upload calculation value is greater than or equal to the predetermined upload parameter, the upload module configured by the processor through a web browser to execute an upload operation in sending files from the smartphone directly to the secure storage on the cloud provider;

upon successful completion of the upload operation, the upload module configured by the processor to delete the files on the smartphone that has been uploaded to the secure storage on the cloud; and

an administrative module configured to enable a user of the smartphone to share via the cloud at least a portion of the files that have been uploaded to the secure storage with one or more other authorized users to view the uploaded files and activate a location-based devices;

wherein prior to the determining step, comprises

setting a default value for the predetermined upload parameter; and

entering a value for the predetermined upload parameter if there is no default setting.