COMPUTER-NETWORK-BASED SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR ENHANCING PERSONAL-INFORMATION STORAGE AND TRANSFER CONTROL

• US 20120066322A1
• Filed: 09/14/2011
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Veragen, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Veragen, Inc.
• Inventors: Galen, Peter M., Yang, Tzu-Chieh, Kato, Norman S.
• Application Number:
  US13/232,987
• Publication Number:
  US 20120066322A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1824 implemented using Network-attached Storage [NAS] architecture distributed or networked storage systems G06F3/067; protocols for distributed storage of data in a network H04L67/1097
• 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 computer-network-based methodology and system for enhancing user control over the storage and transfer of user-personal information data in a network setting which includes both control-distant and control-near, information-data storage sites, and where user-personal information data which the user wishes to move may be held in the control-distant storage site. The methodology, implemented by the associated system, features enabling direct, user-control-access to any user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site, and following such enabling, and under direct user-permitted command, promoting user-command transfer of at least a selected portion of the user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site from the control-distant storage site to the control-near storage site.

Claims

1. Computer-network-based methodology for enhancing user control over the storage and transfer of user-personal information data in a network setting which includes both control-distant and control-near, information-data storage sites, and where user-personal information data which the user wishes to move may be held in the control-distant storage site, said methodology comprising

enabling direct, user-control-access to any user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site, and

following said enabling, and under direct user-permitted command, promoting user-command transfer of at least a selected portion of the user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site from the control-distant storage site to the control-near storage site.

2. The methodology of claim 1 which is specifically employable in a network setting wherein the control-distant storage site which holds the user-personal information data that is subject user transfer control in relation to said enabling step is one of (a) a cloud server and its associated storage structure, (b) a cloud application and its associated storage structure, and (c) a network-connected computer and its associated storage structure.

3. The methodology of claim 1 which is specifically employable in a network setting wherein the control-near storage site which is to receive the user-transferred, user-personal information data is a readily user-accessible one of (a) a user-owned/controlled cloud storage structure, (b) a user owned/controlled, computer-based, network-connected reception structure of any structural nature, (c) a user-accessible network-connected server, and (d) a user-accessible structure of an e-mail program.

4. The methodology of claim 2 which, further, is specifically employable in a network setting wherein the control-near storage site which is to receive the user-transferred, user-personal information data is a user-accessible one of (a) a user-owned/controlled cloud storage structure, (b) a user owned/controlled, computer-based, network-connected reception structure of any structural nature, (c) a user-accessible network-connected server, and (d) a user-accessible structure of an e-mail program.

5. The methodology of claim 1, wherein the user-command site is structured to enable the execution of a user command to move at least a selected portion of user-personal information data in the form of one or more re-assembleable e-mail piece(s).

6. A computer-network-based system for promoting enhanced user control over the storage and transfer of user-personal information data comprising

a control-distant information-data storage site which holds user-personal information data which the user wishes to move,

a control-near information-data storage site,

an operative and implementable network-communication connection in place between said control-distant and said control-near information-data storage sites, and

a user-command site operatively and communicatively connected to each of said information-data storage sites enabling a direct user command promoting the transfer from the control-distant storage site to the control-near storage site, and over said operative and implementable network-communication connection which is in place between said information-data storage sites, of at least a selected portion of the user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said control-distant information-data storage site is a user-accessible one of (a) a cloud server and associated storage structure, (b) a cloud application and associated storage structure, and (c) a network-connected computer and its associated storage structure.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein said control-near information-data storage site is a user-accessible one of (a) a user-owned/controlled cloud storage structure, (b) a user owned/controlled, computer-based, network-connected reception structure of any structural nature, (c) a user-accessible network-connected server, and (d) a user-accessible structure of an e-mail program.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein said control-near information-data storage site is a user-accessible one of (a) a user-owned/controlled cloud storage structure, (b) a user owned/controlled, computer-based, network-connected reception structure of any structural nature, (c) a user-accessible network-connected server, and (d) a user-accessible structure of an e-mail program.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein said user owned/controlled, computer-based, network-connected reception structure takes the form of an e-mail-piece reassembly structure.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein said promoting of user-command transfer of at least a selected portion of the user-personal information data specifically promotes information-data movement in the form of one or more re-assembleable e-mail piece(s).