SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE DEVICE TO USE PHYSICAL STORAGE OF ANOTHER DEVICE FOR CACHING

• US 20120290675A1
• Filed: 07/20/2012
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Luna, Michael, Bott, Ross
• Granted Patent: US 8,356,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/212
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/509 Offload
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0605 by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0644 Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5016 the resource being the memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• 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]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/288 Distributed intermediate devices, i.e. intermediate devices for interaction with other intermediate devices on the same level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/06 using polling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

Systems and methods for a mobile device to use physical storage of another device for caching are disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile device is able to receive over a cellular or IP network a response or content to be cached and wirelessly access the physical storage of the other device via a wireless network to cache the response or content for the mobile device.

Claims

1. A system to enable a mobile device to use physical storage of another device for social caching, the system, comprising:

a local proxy on the mobile device which detects a receives a response in response to a request to a content source;

wherein, the local proxy wirelessly accesses the physical storage of other device via a wireless network to cache the response or content for the mobile device;

responsive to subsequent requests at the mobile device which would be satisfied by the content or the response, the physical storage of the other device is further accessed via the wireless network to access the cache to satisfy the request at the mobile device;

wherein, the physical storage of the other device is accessed in response to detecting commonalities between the mobile device and the other device;

wherein, the commonalities include common interests in users of the mobile device and the other device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, the commonalities further include, the users of the mobile device and the other device having same or similar friends in an on line network or social network.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising,

a proxy server wirelessly coupled to communicate with the local proxy, wherein, the proxy server monitors the content source to determine when the response cached is no longer valid;

wherein, the local proxy notifies the remote proxy when the responses is cached;

wherein, the remote proxy notifies the local proxy on the mobile device when the response is no longer valid.

4. A method for a mobile device to use physical storage of another device for caching, the method, comprising:

receiving over a cellular or IP network, at the mobile device, a response or content to be cached;

wirelessly accessing the physical storage of the other device via a wireless network to cache the response or content for the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein, the response or the content is received in response to a request to a content source.

6. The method of claim 5,

wherein, responsive to subsequent requests at the mobile device which would be satisfied by the content or the response, accessing the physical storage of the other device via the wireless network to access the cache to satisfy the request.

7. The method of claim 4,

wherein, the physical storage includes one or more of, memory, disk storage, SD card storage, or flash storage.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein, the physical storage of the other device is accessed for caching needs of the mobile device responsive to detecting a need for storage or lack of available storage at the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein, the physical storage of the other device is accessed in response to detecting commonalities between the mobile device and the other device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, the commonalities include, a common physical location.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein, the commonalities having common users.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein, the commonalities include having common network operators, or having common cellular network operators.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein, the commonalities include having common application service providers.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein, the commonalities include connection to or access to a common Wifi or Bluetooth network.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein, the commonalities include common interests in the users of the multiple devices.

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising, determining cacheability of the response or the content by analyzing prior responses received for a request.

17. A mobile device which uses physical storage of another device for caching, the mobile device, comprising:

a processor;

memory having instructions stored there on which when executed by the processor causes the mobile device to;

receive over a cellular or IP network a response or content to be cached;

wirelessly access the physical storage of the other device via a wireless network to cache the response or content for the mobile device.

18. The mobile device of claim 17,

wherein, the physical storage includes one or more of, memory, disk storage, SD card storage, or flash storage.

19. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein, the physical storage of the other device is accessed for caching needs of the mobile device responsive to detecting a need for storage or lack of available storage at the mobile device.

20. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein, the physical storage of the other device is accessed responsive to detecting a need for storage or lack of available storage at the mobile device.