VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM AND FILE STORING METHOD

• US 20140214901A1
• Filed: 01/28/2013
• Published: 07/31/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Virtual Strongbox, Inc.
• Original Assignee: DigitalMailer, Inc.
• Inventors: Smilie, Robert Jacob, Daly, Ronald M. Jr., Giambalvo, Leonard
• Application Number:
  US13/752,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20140214901A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/188 Virtual file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/192 Implementing virtual folder structures

Abstract

A virtual storage system in data communication with a user computing device via a communication network and a file storing for storing electronic documents within a virtual storage system where the virtual storage system includes at least one processor that receives a selection of an electronic document to be uploaded from an external system, creates an identifier corresponding to the electronic document, and creates a folder structure using the identifier, for storing the electronic document. The virtual storage system further includes a plurality of redundant physical storage devices in data communication with the at least one processor and each configured to store the electronic document within a folder of the folder structure created.

Claims

1. A virtual storage system in data communication with a user computing device via a communication network, the virtual storage system comprising:

at least one processor configured to;

receive a selection of an electronic document to be uploaded from an external system,

create an identifier corresponding to the electronic document, and

create a folder structure using the identifier, for storing the electronic document; and

a plurality of redundant physical storage devices in data communication with the at least one processor and each configured to store the electronic document within a folder of the folder structure created.

2. The virtual storage system of claim 1, further comprising:

a web interface configured to interface the virtual storage system with the external system and the user computing device, via at least one communication network.

3. The virtual storage system of claim 1, wherein the external system comprises a web interface configured to interface the external system with the virtual storage system.

4. The virtual storage system of claim 1, wherein the user computing device comprises a web application configured to interface the user computing device with the virtual storage system, via the external system.

5. The virtual storage system of claim 1, wherein the user computing device comprises a native application configured to interface the user computing device directly with the virtual storage system.

6. The virtual storage system of claim 1, wherein the external system is an online document retrieval and storage system.

7. The virtual storage system of claim 6, wherein the online document retrieval and storage system is a banking system and the electronic document is a bank statement.

8. The virtual storage system of claim 1, wherein the identifier is a globally unique identifier (GUID).

9. The virtual storage system of claim 1, wherein the identifier is used to name the electronic document to be uploaded.

10. The virtual storage system of claim 1, wherein the identifier comprises a plurality of characters to be divided into a plurality of groups, wherein a first group of the plurality of characters forms a first folder of the folder structure, and a second group of the plurality of characters forms at least one second folder of the folder structure.

11. The virtual storage system of claim 10, wherein the at least one second folder is a subfolder of the first folder.

12. A method implemented by computer system to effect the storing of electronic documents within a virtual storage system including a plurality of redundant physical storage devices and in data communication via a communication network, with an external system, the method comprising:

receiving input data for accessing the virtual storage system directly or indirectly via the external system;

selecting via a user, an electronic document to be uploaded from the external system;

creating an identifier corresponding to the electronic document; and

creating a folder structure using the identifier, for storing the electronic document; and

storing the electronic document within a folder of the folder structure created within the plurality of redundant physical storage devices.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the identifier is a globally unique identifier (GUID).

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the identifier is used to name the electronic document to be uploaded and to temporarily store the electronic document within a first location of the virtual storage system, and

wherein the electronic document is permanently stored in the folder of the folder structure within a second location of the virtual storage system.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

processing the identifier and grouping a plurality of characters of the identifier together as a single sequence of characters;

dividing the single sequence of characters into a plurality of groups;

creating a first folder using a first group of the plurality of characters;

creating at least one second folder using at least one second group of the plurality of characters.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one second folder is a subfolder of the first folder.

17. A computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to perform a file storing method for storing electronic documents within a virtual storage system including a plurality of redundant physical storage devices and in data communication via a communication network, with an external system, the method comprising:

receiving input data for accessing the virtual storage system directly or indirectly via the external system;

selecting via a user, an electronic document to be uploaded from the external system;

creating an identifier corresponding to the electronic document;

creating a folder structure using the identifier, for storing the electronic document; and

storing the electronic document within a folder of the folder structure created within the plurality of redundant physical storage devices.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the identifier is a globally unique identifier (GUID).

19. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the identifier is used to name the electronic document to be uploaded and to temporarily store the electronic document within a first location of the virtual storage system, and

wherein the electronic document is permanently stored in the folder of the folder structure within a second location of the virtual storage system.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

processing the identifier and grouping a plurality of characters of the identifier together as a single sequence of characters;

dividing the single sequence of characters into a plurality of groups;

creating a first folder using a first group of the plurality of characters;

creating at least one second folder using at least one second group of the plurality of characters.