Moveable storage

• US 9,626,626 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2015
• Issued: 04/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Bevan, Frances, Markowitz, David, Rekstad, Michael, Sim, Jae, Stone, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Woo, Isaac M
• Application Number:
  US14/816,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20160132784A1
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• Field of Search: 707600-899
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/17 Details of further file system functions
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 7/01 Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks

Abstract

A mobile storage system is disclosed that in one aspect identifies a geographical location change of a user, such as movement from a first geographical location to a second geographical location. In response, the mobile storage system may move the user'"'"'s information to a storage device associated with the second geographical location so that the user'"'"'s information may be accessed by the user more efficiently.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a computing device, an anticipated location change of a user from a first geographical location to a second geographical location; and

in response to determining the anticipated location change, based on an indication that the user will access data associated with the user during the anticipated location change, and before the user moves from the first geographical location to the second geographical location, moving the data associated with the user from a storage device associated with the first geographical location to a mobile device associated with the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein moving the data associated with the user from the storage device associated with the first geographical location to the mobile device is based on a location schedule associated with the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein moving the data associated with the user from the storage device associated with the first geographical location to the mobile device is performed in response to a determination that a duration of a travel period associated with the anticipated location change satisfies a threshold.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining one or more capabilities of the mobile device; and

moving second data associated with the user from the storage device to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location based on the one or more capabilities of the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after moving the data associated with the user to the mobile device, moving the data from the mobile device to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to determining the anticipated location change and before the user moves from the first geographical location to the second geographical location, moving the data associated with the user from the storage device associated with the first geographical location to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location; and

synchronizing the data moved to the mobile device with the data moved to the second storage device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein moving the data associated with the user from the storage device associated with the first geographical location to the mobile device is performed in response to a determination that the data will be inaccessible during at least a portion of the anticipated location change.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication that the user will access the data is based on a duration of a travel period associated with the anticipated location change.

9. A method comprising:

determining, by a computing device, an anticipated location change of a user from a first geographical location to a second geographical location; and

in response to determining the anticipated location change based on an access indicator associated with the user and with a travel period associated with the anticipated location change, and before the user moves from the first geographical location to the second geographical location, causing data associated with the user and stored at a storage device associated with the first geographical location to be stored at a mobile device associated with the user.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein causing the data associated with the user to be stored at the mobile device is based on a location schedule associated with the user.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein causing the data associated with the user to be stored at the mobile device is performed in response to a determination that a duration of the travel period associated with the anticipated location change satisfies a threshold.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

determining one or more capabilities of the mobile device; and

moving second data associated with the user from the storage device to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location based on the one or more capabilities of the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

after causing the data associated with the user to be stored at the mobile device, moving the data from the mobile device to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein moving the data from the mobile device to the second storage device is performed in response to a determination that the second storage device is available.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

in response to determining the anticipated location change and before the user moves from the first geographical location to the second geographical location, moving the data associated with the user from the storage device associated with the first geographical location to a second storage device associated with the second geographical location; and

synchronizing the data stored at the mobile device with the data moved to the second storage device.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the access indicator is associated with a mode of transportation during the travel period associated with the anticipated location change.

17. A method comprising:

determining, by a computing device, an anticipated location change of a user to a geographical location; and

in response to determining the anticipated location change and based on a determination that a likelihood that the user will access data associated with the user during a commute associated with the anticipated location change satisfies a threshold, moving the data associated with the user to a mobile device associated with the user.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein moving the data associated with the user to the mobile device is based on a location schedule associated with the user.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein moving the data associated with the user to the mobile device is performed in response to a determination that a duration of the commute associated with the anticipated location change satisfies a threshold.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the likelihood that the user will access the data is based on information indicative of data access of the user during a past location change of the user.