Cloud-based document suggestion service

• US 9,465,856 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ivanti, Inc. (Ivanti Software, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Appsense Incorporated
• Inventors: Curtis, Hannah, Branton, Paul Keith
• Primary Examiner(s): Perveen, Rehana
• Assistant Examiner(s): Skhoun, Hicham
• Application Number:
  US13/829,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20140279896A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,307 Days
• Field of Search: 707/634
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for suggesting relevant documents to a local user. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising determining, at a local device, a set of selection criteria for suggestion of relevant documents to the local user, the suggestion criteria including at least one of keywords and document metadata; retrieving a plurality of file statistics from a remote server, wherein at least one of the file statistics has been created by a remote user; creating a table of suggestions from the plurality of file statistics and from the set of suggestion criteria; and suggesting at least one file to the local user based on the table of suggestion criteria.

Claims

1. A computerized method comprising:

determining, at a local computing device, selection criteria for suggestion of relevant documents to the local user, including a set of keywords;

synchronizing, to a shared cloud service, the selection criteria as a first serialized data file;

identifying a remote content file using a globally-unique identifier for the remote content file, wherein the globally-unique identifier is embedded in a filename of a second serialized data file, wherein;

the second serialized data file is a Javascript Object Notation data format (JSON); and

the second serialized data file is associated with a remote device;

initiating, by identifying a globally-unique identifier for the local user, authenticated access to the second serialized data file via the shared cloud service, wherein the globally-unique identifier for the local user is used for tracking all statistics regarding file accesses associated with the local user;

receiving the second serialized data file at the local computing device from the shared cloud service when the second serialized data file is synchronized to the shared cloud service by the remote device, wherein;

the second serialized data file reflects a single up-to-date state of the second serialized data file in the shared cloud service;

the second serialized data file includes metadata relating to the remote content file, the metadata being created by the remote device when the first serialized data file was synchronized to the remote device and in response to a remote user opening a remote content file on the remote device, and the remote device determined the remote content file included one or more of the selection criteria from the first serialized data file after the remote user accessed the remote content file, the metadata including data indicative of one or more keywords from the set of keywords occurring in the remote content file and document metadata identifying the remote content file; and

the second serialized data file has a filename generated as a function of the remote content file and is saved separately from the remote content file;

determining, at the local computing device, using the plurality of file statistics from the second serialized data file and the selection criteria that the remote content file is a relevant document, wherein the remote content file would not have been identified based on just the selection criteria determined at the local computing device; and

suggesting, by the local computing device, at least the remote content file to the local user in response to the determined selection criteria in a table of suggestions.

2. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising sharing the plurality of file statistics among a plurality of users of the shared cloud service.

3. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting when a file has been modified;

synchronizing the modified file with the shared cloud service; and

reloading the table of suggestions.

4. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the second serialized data file is stored in a metadata directory in a file hierarchy at the shared cloud service and synchronized with the local computing device.

5. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the globally-unique identifier embedded in the filename of the second serialized data file identifies the associated user or file of the data file in the filename, so that the information can be located in a particular location on the shared cloud service using the filename.

6. A system comprising:

a local computing device for use by a local user;

a shared cloud service for storing and synchronizing statistics files and keyword files for use by a remote user;

a user client export module at the local computing device for;

creating a keyword file from selection criteria for suggestion of relevant documents to the local user, the selection criteria including a set of keywords; and

synchronizing the keyword file with the shared cloud service as a first serialized data file;

a user client import module at the local computing device in communication with the shared cloud service for retrieving a second serialized data file from the shared cloud service when the second serialized data file is synchronized to the shared cloud service by a remote device, wherein retrieving comprises;

identifying the remote content file using a globally-unique identifier for the remote content file, wherein the globally-unique identifier is embedded in a filename of a second serialized data file, wherein;

the second serialized data file is a Javascript Object Notation data format (JSON); and

the second serialized data file is associated with the remote device;

initiating, by identifying a globally-unique identifier for the local user, authenticated access to the second serialized data file via the shared cloud service, wherein the globally-unique identifier for the local user is used for tracking all statistics regarding file accesses associated with the local user;

receiving the second serialized data file at the local computing device from the shared cloud service when the second serialized data file is synchronized to the shared cloud service by the remote device, wherein;

the second serialized data file reflects a single up-to-date state of the second serialized data file in the shared cloud service;

the second serialized data file includes metadata relating to the remote content file, the metadata being created by the remote device when the keyword file was synchronized to the remote device and in response to a remote user opening a remote content file on the remote device, and the remote device determined the remote content file included one or more of the selection criteria from the keyword file from the keyword file after the remote user accessed the remote content file, the metadata including data indicative of one or more keywords from the set of keywords occurring in the remote content file and document metadata identifying the remote content file; and

the second serialized data file has a filename generated as a function of the remote content file and is saved separately from the remote content file; and

a suggestion module at the local computing device, in communication with the shared cloud service, for;

identifying, using the selection criteria at the local computing device and the plurality of file statistics in the statistics file, that the remote content file is a relevant document, wherein the remote content file would not have been identified based on just the selection criteria determined at the local computing device; and

suggesting files based on the selection criteria and the statistics from the statistics file, the files including at least the identified remote content file.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the user client import module is configured to perform data collection when a file is opened by the user.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the shared cloud service is configured to synchronize keyword files after every update.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the globally-unique identifier embedded in the filename of the second serialized data file identifies the associated user or file of the data file in the filename, so that information about a user or a file can be located in a particular location on the shared cloud service using the filename.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the user client import module is further configured to detect when a file has been modified, synchronize the modified file with the cloud, and reload the suggested files.

11. A networked computing system comprising:

a processor;

a network interface coupled to the processor for communicating with a shared cloud service;

a data storage device coupled to the processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor and including computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

determine, at a local computing device, selection criteria for suggestion of relevant documents to the local user, including a set of keywords;

synchronize, to a shared cloud service, the selection criteria as a first serialized data file;

identify a remote content file using a globally-unique identifier for the remote content file, wherein the globally-unique identifier is embedded in a filename of a second serialized data file, wherein;

the second serialized data file is a Javascript Object Notation data format (JSON); and

the second serialized data file is associated with a remote device;

initiate, by identifying a globally-unique identifier for the local user, authenticated access to the second serialized data file via the shared cloud service, wherein the globally-unique identifier for the local user is used for tracking all statistics regarding file accesses associated with the local user;

receive the second serialized data file at the local computing device from the shared cloud service when the second serialized data file is synchronized to the shared cloud service by the remote device, wherein;

the second serialized data file reflects a single up-to-date state of the second serialized data file in the shared cloud service;

the second serialized data file includes metadata relating to the remote content file, the metadata being created by the remote device when the first serialized data file was synchronized to the remote device and in response to a remote user opening a remote content file on the remote device, and the remote device determined the remote content file included one or more of the selection criteria from the first serialized data file after the remote user accessed the remote content file, the metadata including data indicative of one or more keywords from the set of keywords occurring in the remote content file and document metadata identifying the remote content file; and

the second serialized data file has a filename generated as a function of the remote content file and is saved separately from the remote content file;

determine at the local computing device, using the plurality of file statistics from the second serialized data file and the selection criteria that the remote content file is a relevant document, wherein the remote content file would not have been identified based on just the selection criteria determined at the local computing device; and

suggest at least the remote content file to the local user in response to the determined selection criteria in a table of suggestions.

12. The networked computing system of claim 11, the computer-readable instructions further causing the processor to share the file statistics among a plurality of users of the shared cloud service.

13. The networked computing system of claim 11, the computer-readable instructions further causing the processor to detect when a file has been modified, synchronize the modified file with the shared cloud service, and reload the table of suggestions.

14. The networked computing system of claim 11, the computer-readable instructions further causing the processor to store the plurality of file statistics in a data file that is in a metadata directory in a file hierarchy at the shared cloud service and synchronized with the local device.

15. The networked computing system of claim 11, wherein the globally-unique identifier embedded in the filename of the data file identifies the associated user or file of the data file in the filename, so that the information can be located in a particular location on the shared cloud service using the filename.