Web drive system

• US 6,839,743 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2001
• Issued: 01/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Logicplanet Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Logic Plant Company Limited
• Inventors: Shim, Jae-Bum
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Hosain
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ismail, Shawki
• Application Number:
  US09/797,284
• Publication Number:
  US 20010051993A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,405 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/248, 711/170, 711/172, 711/148, 711/112, 711/114, 711/203
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A web drive system that integrates storage spaces provided by multiple Internet sites into a single imaginary drive usable as a storage of a mobile terminal. The web drive system includes: a web drive interface for connecting a mobile terminal controller to an imaginary drive to form a web drive; a user information manager for managing user information necessary to have access to the individual Internet sites; a user information storage for storing the user information; an Internet site interface for automatically logging onto the individual Internet sites; a storage space integration manager for managing the information data to be stored/restored; a space allocation information storage for storing space allocation information indicating the capacity of the storage space of the web drive and the location of the Internet site that stores the information data; and a storage mode selector for selecting the mode of storing the information data.

Claims

1. In a mobile terminal which includes an input for receiving a user signal to operate the mobile terminal of a user, an output for displaying the operational status of the mobile terminal, a mobile terminal controller for controlling the entire operation of the mobile terminal based on the user signal, a drive for storing various information data, and an Internet interface for providing a physical connection between the mobile terminal and the Internet,

a web drive system comprising:

a web drive interface for connecting the mobile terminal controller to an imaginary drive to form a web drive so that storage spaces provided by a plurality of Internet sites are integrated into a single drive;

a user information manager for managing user information necessary to have access to the individual Internet sites;

a user information storage for storing the user information;

an Internet site interface for automatically logging onto the individual Internet sites based on the user information;

a storage space integration manager for managing the information data to be stored/restored in/from the web drive;

a space allocation information storage for storing space allocation information indicating the capacity of the storage space of the web drive and the location of the Internet site that stores the information data; and

a storage mode selector for selecting the mode of storing the information data in the storage spaces of the individual Internet sites, and converting and restoring the information data based on the selected storage mode.

2. The web drive system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the storage space integration manager comprises:

a free storage space checker for checking a free space of the storage space provided by the individual Internet sites;

a synchronizer for synchronizing a time difference between connection and data transmission to the individual Internet sites; and

a converter for converting, dividing and integrating the information data so as to store/read the information data in/from the storage space of the individual Internet sites.

3. The web drive system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the storage space integration manager further comprises a security manager for managing security for connection to the individual Internet sites.

4. A web drive system comprising the steps of:

providing a connection to an imaginary drive to form a web drive upon receiving a web drive connection signal for integrating storage spaces provided by multiple Internet sites into a single storage space;

designating a mode of storing information data in the web drive and specific Internet sites that provide the storage spaces;

storing user information for connection to the individual Internet sites, and initializing space allocation information of the storage spaces provided by the designated Internet sites;

automatically logging onto the designated Internet sites based on the user information stored; and

initializing the storage spaces provided by the individual Internet sites, and updating information about the web drive.

5. The web drive system as claimed in claim 4, further comprising the steps of:

checking the space allocation information of the storage spaces of the multiple Internet sites upon receiving an instruction signal for storing the information data in the web drive;

converting and dividing the information data and determining whether the individual Internet sites are connected, so as to store the information data based on the space allocation information checked;

storing the converted and divided information data in the storage spaces of the individual Internet sites based on the designated storage mode if the individual Internet sites are connected, or automatically logging onto the individual Internet sites based on the user information and then storing the information data in the storage spaces of the individual Internet sites based on the designated storage mode if the individual Internet sites are not connected; and

updating information about the web drive as the space allocation information of the storage spaces of the individual Internet sites changes due to changes in the stored information data.

6. The web drive system as claimed in claim 4, further comprising the steps of:

checking the space allocation information of the storage spaces of the individual Internet sites to locate the Internet sites that store the information data, upon receiving an instruction signal for reading the divided information data from the web driver;

determining whether the individual Internet sites are connected, and restoring the information data from the storage spaces of the individual Internet sites based on the designated storage mode if the individual Internet sites are connected, or automatically logging onto the individual Internet sites based on the user information and then restoring the information data from the storage spaces of the individual Internet sites based on the designated storage mode if the individual Internet sites are not connected; and

converting and integrating the divided information data that is restored, and updating information about the web drive as the space allocation information of the storage spaces of the individual Internet sites changes due to changes in the restored information data.

7. The web drive system as claimed in claim 5 or 6, further comprising the step of synchronizing a time difference between connection and data transmission to the individual Internet sites in storing/restoring the information data in/from the web drive.