MULTIPLE FILE TRANSFER SPEED UP

• US 20140173050A1
• Filed: 12/18/2012
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Locker, Howard, Bowen, Toby John, Nicholson, John Weldon, Davis, Mark Charles
• Granted Patent: US 9,154,543 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4025 where none of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. downloading a file in a parallel FTP session, initiating an email or combinational services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks

Abstract

An aspect provides a method, including: ascertaining, at a source device, an area of a storage device inclusive of multiple selected files for transfer to a sink device; copying, at the source device, files resident in the area of the storage device inclusive of the multiple files selected for transfer to a sink device into a transfer file; creating, at the source device, a control file comprising information necessary to identify the multiple selected files for transfer included in the transfer file; and transmitting, from the source device, the transfer file to the sink device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

ascertaining, at a source device, an area of a storage device inclusive of multiple selected files for transfer to a sink device;

copying, at the source device, files resident in the area of the storage device inclusive of the multiple files selected for transfer to a sink device into a transfer file;

creating, at the source device, a control file comprising information necessary to identify the multiple selected files for transfer included in the transfer file; and

transmitting, from the source device, the transfer file to the sink device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transfer file is transmitted in a single file transfer action according to a transfer protocol.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transfer file includes data of the area of a storage device not associated with the multiple selected files for transfer.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the information necessary to identify the multiple selected files for transfer included in the transfer file further comprises information necessary for identifying the data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting, from the source device, the transfer file to the sink device, comprises wirelessly transmitting the transfer file.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting, from the source device, the transfer file to the sink device, comprises transmitting the transfer file over a wired connection.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the control file is transmitted to the sink device separate from the transfer file.

8. An information handling device, comprising:

a storage device;

one or more processors; and

a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors that stores instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

ascertaining an area of the storage device inclusive of multiple selected files for transfer to a sink device;

copying the files resident in the area of the storage device inclusive of the multiple files selected for transfer to a sink device into a transfer file;

creating a control file comprising information necessary to identify the multiple selected files for transfer included in the transfer file; and

transmitting the transfer file to the sink device.

9. The information handling device of claim 8, wherein the transfer file is transmitted in a single file transfer action according to a transfer protocol.

10. The information handling device of claim 8, wherein the transfer file includes data of the area of a storage device not associated with the multiple selected files for transfer.

11. The information handling device of claim 10, wherein the information necessary to identify the multiple selected files for transfer included in the transfer file further comprises information necessary for identifying the data.

12. The information handling device of claim 8, wherein the transmitting the transfer file to the sink device comprises wirelessly transmitting the transfer file.

13. The information handling device of claim 8, wherein the transmitting the transfer file to the sink device comprises transmitting the transfer file over a wired connection.

14. A program product, comprising:

a storage medium having computer program code embodied therewith, the computer program code comprising;

computer program code configured to ascertain, at a source device, an area of a storage device inclusive of multiple selected files for transfer to a sink device;

computer program code configured to copy, at the source device, files resident in the area of the storage device inclusive of the multiple files selected for transfer to a sink device into a transfer file;

computer program code configured to create, at the source device, a control file comprising information necessary to identify the multiple selected files for transfer included in the transfer file; and

computer program code configured to transmit, from the source device, the transfer file to the sink device.

15. The program product of claim 14, wherein the transfer file is transmitted in a single action.

16. The program product of claim 14, wherein the transfer file includes data of the area of a storage device not associated with the multiple selected files for transfer.

17. The program product of claim 16, wherein the information necessary to identify the multiple selected files for transfer included in the transfer file further comprises information necessary for identifying the data.

18. The program product of claim 14, wherein the transmitting, from the source device, the transfer file to the sink device, comprises wirelessly transmitting the transfer file.

19. The program product of claim 14, wherein the transmitting, from the source device, the transfer file to the sink device, comprises transmitting the transfer file over a wired connection.

20. The program product of claim 14, wherein the control file is transmitted to the sink device separate from the transfer file.