METHOD OF FILE SHARING

• US 20150304391A1
• Filed: 06/10/2014
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Walton Advanced Engineering Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Walton Advanced Engineering Incorporated
• Inventors: Yu, Hong Chi, Chang, Mao Ting
• Granted Patent: US 9,332,059 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

A method of file sharing based on a file server is intended to share specific data and enable data constraints for automatic deletion of specific shared data which has been downloaded by a downloader device.

Claims

1. A method of file sharing used in a file server (2) on a network for data sharing and comprises steps as follows:

a management interface (21) which is enabled in an end user device (1) displays a hierarchical directory structure and file information in said file server (2);

a download location over Internet (223) is issued by said file server (2) and displayed on said management interface (21) through which a data sharing request (221) and at least a data constraint (222) for a shared data (22) is entered; and

said shared data (22) is downloaded from said file server (2) by a downloader device (4) with said download location over Internet (223) enabled and is automatically deleted with data transmitted completely and a button for deletion of downloaded data in said data constraints (222) enabled (or is not deleted with data transmitted completely and a button for deletion of downloaded data in said data constraints (222) disabled).

2. A method of file sharing according to claim 1 wherein said data constraint (222) comprise conditions to access a hierarchical file structure, that is, levels of a hierarchical file structure accessed by a downloader.

3. A method of file sharing according to claim 1 wherein said data constraints (222) comprise a shared-device acceleration button.

4. A method of file sharing according to claim 3 wherein said shared data (22) is transmitted to a shared device (3) with said download location over Internet (223) provided from said file server (2).

5. A method of file sharing according to claim 4 wherein said shared device (3) is able to provide a shared data backup (31) to downloaders when said file server (2) is offline.

6. A method of file sharing according to claim 1 wherein said downloader devices (4) are a plurality of downloader equipment (41, 42) which accesses said shared data (22) from each other via a pier-to-pier network.

7. A method of file sharing according to claim 1 wherein said data constraints (222) comprise at least download frequency, download time and traffic limit.

8. A method of file sharing according to claim 1 wherein said download location over Internet (223) can be a URL or a fast response code.