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Utilizing user devices for backing up and retrieving data in a distributed backup system

  • US 9,720,665 B2
  • Filed: 03/06/2014
  • Issued: 08/01/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • receiving, at a server in a computing system where multiple data files of a user are backed up based on multiple data backup policies to the server or across multiple computing devices associated with the user, a request from a first computing device of the computing devices to access a data file of the data files stored at the server, each of the computing devices associated with one or more of the data backup policies for storing the data files;

    determining, by the server, whether a second computing device of the computing devices contains the data file;

    responsive to a determination that the second computing device contains the data file, determining, by the server, whether the second computing device is in proximity to the first computing device; and

    responsive to a determination that the second computing device is in proximity to the first computing device, causing, by the server, the first computing device to access the data file from the second computing device, the second computing device being an edge cache of the computing system for the data file.

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