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PROVIDING STORAGE AND SECURITY SERVICES WITH A SMART PERSONAL GATEWAY DEVICE

  • US 20140372551A1
  • Filed: 06/11/2014
  • Published: 12/18/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2013
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for caching and sharing data among smart personal devices (SPDs) having heterogeneous communication modalities, said system comprising:

  • a memory area associated with a smart personal gateway device (SPGD), the memory area storing an SPGD cache maintained by the SPGD and accessible to a plurality of SPDs, the SPGD and the plurality of SPDs being connected by a personal area network (PAN); and

    an SPGD processor programmed to;

    receive data from a cloud service over a first communication modality;

    store the received data in the SPGD cache in the memory area;

    share the stored data in the SPGD cache with one or more of the SPDs over a second communication modality, at least one of the one or more of the SPDs lacking support for the first communication modality;

    store, in the SPGD cache, data received from a first one of the SPDs; and

    provide, from the SPGD cache, at least a portion of the stored data received from the first one of the SPDs with a second one of the SPDs to maintain a consistent state between the first one of the SPDs and the second one of the SPDs.

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