File replication on location-aware devices

• US 9,930,134 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2015
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dow, Andrew, Dow, Eli M., Materise, Maurice M., Nagel, Katrin, Painter, Nickalaus A., Pava, Jairo A., Rodriguez, Salma Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, HUYEN X
• Application Number:
  US14/952,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20170149919A1
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• Field of Search: 704251, 704255, 704250, 704257, 704270, 7042701, 704 1- 10, 704200, 370338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• 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 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

A method for sending data to a user device comprises establishing a communicative connection between a first user device and a server, receiving the data at the first user device, caching the data on the first user device, establishing a communicative connection between the first user device and a second user device, determining whether the first user device is moving out of communicative range with the second user device, sending the data from the first user device to the second user device responsive to determining that the first user device is moving out of communicative range with the second user device, and caching the data on the second user device.

Claims

1. A method for sending a data to a user device, the method comprising:

establishing a communicative connection between a first user device and a server;

receiving the data at the first user device, wherein the data is associated with a geographic location of the first user device;

caching the data on the first user device;

determining whether the first user device and a second user device are associated with users having similar interest graphs prior to establishing the communicative connection between the first user device and the second user device, wherein the determination that the users have similar interest graphs is based on a determination that the users have similar user file histories and have correlations between database accesses;

establishing a direct peer-to-peer communicative network connection operative to send the data between a first user device and the second user device responsive to determining that the first user device and the second user device are associated with users having similar interest graphs;

sending a notification from the first user device to the second user device that indicates that the data is cached on the first user device following establishing the communicative connection between the first user device and a second user device;

determining that the first user device is moving out of the geographic location by determining that a signal strength of a signal received by the first user device is indicative of the first user device moving out of communicative range with the second user device;

sending the data from the first user device to the second user device responsive to determining that the first user device is moving out of the geographic location and that the second user device is within the geographic location; and

caching the data on the second user device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user device sends a first portion of the data to the second user device.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

establishing a communicative connection between the second user device and the server; and

sending a second portion of the data from the server to the second user device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is cached on a network cache device prior to the first user device receiving the data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a portion of the data is sent to the second user device from the first user device and a portion of the data is sent to the second user device from the network cache.

6. A method for sending data to a user device, the method comprising:

caching data on a first user device, wherein the data is associated with a geographic location of the first user device;

determining whether the first user device and a second user device are associated with users having similar interest graphs prior to establishing the communicative connection between the first user device and the second user device, wherein the determination that the users have similar interest graphs is based on a determination that the users have similar user file histories and have correlations between database accesses;

establishing a direct peer-to-peer communicative network connection operative to send the data between the first user device and the second user device responsive to determining that the first user device and the second user device are associated with users having similar interest graphs;

sending a notification from the first user device to the second user device that indicates that the data is cached on the first user device following establishing the communicative connection between the first user device and a second user device;

determining that the first user device is moving out of the geographic location by determining that a signal strength of a signal received by the first user device is indicative of the first user device moving out of communicative range with the second user device;

sending the data from the first user device to the second user device responsive to determining that the first user device is moving out of the geographic location and that the second user device is within the geographic location; and

caching the data on the second user device.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

establishing a communicative connection between the first user device and a server; and

receiving the data at the first user device prior to caching the data on the first user device.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the first user device sends a first portion of the data to the second user device.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

establishing a communicative connection between the second user device and the server; and

sending a second portion of the data from the server to the second user device.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the data is cached on a network cache device prior to the first user device receiving the data.

11. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

establishing a communicative connection between a first user device and a server;

receiving the data at the first user device, wherein the data is associated with a geographic location of the first user device;

caching the data on the first user device;

determining whether the first user device and a second user device are associated with users having similar interest graphs prior to establishing the communicative connection between the first user device and the second user device, wherein the determination that the users have similar interest graphs is based on a determination that the users have similar user the histories and have correlations between database accesses;

establishing a direct peer-to-peer communicative network connection operative to send the data between the first user device and the second user device responsive to determining that the first user device and the second user device are associated with users having similar interest graphs;

sending a notification from the first user device to the second user device that indicates that the data is cached on the first user device following establishing the communicative connection between the first user device and a second user device;

determining that the first user device is moving out of the geographic location by determining that a signal strength of a signal received by the first user device is indicative of the first user device moving out of communicative range with the second user device;

sending the data from the first user device to the second user device responsive to determining that the first user device is moving out of the geographic location and that the second user device is within the geographic location; and

caching the data on the second user device.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the first user device sends a first portion of the data to the second user device.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, the method further comprising:

establishing a communicative connection between the second user device and the server; and

sending a second portion of the data from the server to the second user device.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the data is cached on a network cache device prior to the first user device receiving the data.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein a portion of the data is sent to the second user device from the first user device and a portion of the data is sent to the second user device from the network cache.