93 results about "Virtual directory" patented technology

A hierarchical / relational translation system is provided for enabling information from unrelated heterogeneous relational computing systems to be accessed, navigated, searched, browsed, and shared over a hierarchical computing system. In one embodiment, the hierarchical / relational translation system includes a virtual directory server for capturing information in the nature of relational database schema and metadata. The captured schema and metadata are then translated into virtual directories that are universally compatible with standard communication protocols used with hierarchical computing systems. A virtual directory of information organizes an index of data records and a standard addressing schema is provided to enable customizable access to relevant views of relational computing systems. Several embodiments for presenting the virtual directory information tree are included. In one embodiment, the virtual directory is displayed using browser format. In another embodiment, the virtual directory is presented in electronic mail format. Still, in another embodiment the virtual directory is presented over a wireless medium and through portable devices.

A hierarchical / relational translation system is provided for enabling information from unrelated heterogeneous relational computing systems to be accessed, navigated, searched, browsed, and shared over a hierarchical computing system. In one embodiment, the hierarchical / relational translation system includes a virtual directory server for capturing information in the nature of relational database schema and metadata. The captured schema and metadata are then translated into virtual directories that are universally compatible with standard communication protocols used with hierarchical computing systems. A virtual directory of information organizes an index of data records and a standard addressing schema is provided to enable customizable access to relevant views of relational computing systems. Several embodiments for presenting the virtual directory information tree are included. In one embodiment, the virtual directory is displayed using browser format. In another embodiment, the virtual directory is presented in electronic mail format. Still, in another embodiment the virtual directory is presented over a wireless medium and through portable devices.

A hierarchical / relational translation system is provided for enabling information from unrelated heterogeneous relational computing systems to be accessed, navigated, searched, browsed, and shared over a hierarchical computing system. In one embodiment, the hierarchical / relational translation system includes a virtual directory server for capturing information in the nature of relational database schema and metadata. The captured schema and metadata are then translated into virtual directories that are universally compatible with standard communication protocols used with hierarchical computing systems. A virtual directory of information organizes an index of data records and a standard addressing schema is provided to enable customizable access to relevant views of relational computing systems. Several embodiments for presenting the virtual directory information tree are included. In one embodiment, the virtual directory is displayed using browser format. In another embodiment, the virtual directory is presented in electronic mail format. Still, in another embodiment the virtual directory is presented over a wireless medium and through portable devices.

An electronic shopping server formats and sends an electronic page, having an integrated shopping basket with drag and drop functionality, from a virtual catalog to a plurality of clients. The server includes an e-sessions controller that manages and tracks each session with the clients, profile generator that identifies and authorizes each consumer to engage in the sessions, catalog selector responsive to on-demand requests for the contents and supporting data of each catalog page, and order processor that supports purchase requests. The e-sessions controller manages the sessions by causing each client to launch an electronic sessions application. The resident application includes a local sessions controller that brokers all client communications with the server and implements the instructions from the e-sessions controller. The resident application also includes an image generator for displaying an image of each item from the catalog page, descriptive data generator for displaying supporting data for each item, and an order panel generator for displaying a shopping basket that remains on the same page with the image at all times. An order initiator can be included to send a request for the server to create a facsimile of the shopping basket. An item adder and item remover cause items to be added / removed from the client's basket and, if included, server's basket upon executing a web page function. An order executor synchronizes the two shopping baskets and / or sends a request to purchase the items listed in the shopping basket. The shopping basket can be configured to travel with the consumer to receive input from various servers hosting different web sites.

A XML-aware file system exploits attributes encoded in a XML document. The file system presents a dynamic directory structure to the user, and breaks the conventional tight linkage between sets of files and the physical directory structure, thus allowing different users to see files organized in a different fashion. The dynamic structure is based upon content, which is extracted using an inverted index according to attributes and values defined by the XML structure. In one application, a dynamically changing federated repository is searchable using a system of local and merged master indices, wherein query results are presented as virtual directory paths that are semantically organized.

An identity management tool provides identity management across multiple domains, providing a single access point not only for information for runtime, network, and service layer information, but also for systems such as business support systems (BSS), operational support systems (OSS), and third party systems. The identity management tool creates a unified user profile that maps customer identities across the various domains, and presents the information in a virtual directory wherein the information appears to come from a single source, creating a central data hub for the various systems. This aggregation provides for the same experience and service across various access networks and using various channels. Such an architecture allows billing and service information to be shared with subscription and customer information, even though the data is substantially unrelated data from disparate data sources, without the need to combine schemas or aggregate the data into a single data store.

A system and method for managing backup and restore operations associated with a backup system. Metadata associated with files / directories of one or more file systems associated with one or more resources may be received. A virtual catalog image associated with the metadata may be created in a virtual file system image format. Once the virtual catalog image is created, virtualization vendor specific technology may be utilized to mount the image on the backup system and search and browse operations may be performed. The virtual catalog image may contain the file / directory hierarchy without containing actual file data.

Network users are authorized individual access during a log-on session to encrypted content on content media at the user without the necessity of individualizing the content media for the particular user. The content may comprise multimedia data. The content media, which may be mass produced and distributed, includes a computer program which generates a unique configuration identifier upon instantiation of the program to begin a user access session. The program creates a virtual directory structure for the content that is uniquely determined for that session by the configuration identifier. The configuration identifier is uploaded to a remote server which uses the configuration identifier with other information identifying the content media and the user authorize user access. The remote server creates and downloads to a browser of the user an encrypted message containing URLs for accessing the content in the virtual directory structure and containing transformations of a decryption algorithm and decryption keys for the encrypted content. Encrypted multimedia content selected by the user is stored in a temporary file, decrypted in a moving time window, and rendered After rendering, the decrypted portion of the temporary file is scrambled to preclude further access.

The invention relates to a distributed file system virtual catalog and the implementation of a naming space. A primary server creates a uniform virtual catalog in the whole storage network, takes the concrete information of each file in store, and makes a mapping for the actual storage position of the file and the address in the virtual catalog, as well as shields the difference among hardware, an operation system and a file storage structure; in view of a client, the client does not know where the file is stored, the file in the whole system is seen to be stored in a uniform way without any difference from a common file system, namely, the system is a virtual file system; a secondary server stores the relevant information of the file stored on the secondary server, thereby forming an own file system. The invention has the advantages that the operation of the user is convenient through the system virtual catalog, and the file storage is transparent for the user. The consistency when a plurality of users access the file together is ensured through the chain-type operation of the naming space, thereby solving the problem of name collision, and obtaining good effect.

An application network appliance with a built-in virtual directory interface is described herein. According to one embodiment, a network element includes a virtual directory interface (VDI) coupled to multiple directory servers, and an authentication and authorization unit coupled to the VDI. In response to a packet of a network transaction received from a client over a first network for accessing a server of a datacenter over a second network, the authentication and authorization unit obtains user attributes from the directory servers via the VDI and performs authentication and authorization using the user attributes to determine whether a user of the client is eligible to access the server of the datacenter, where the network element operates as a security gateway to the datacenter. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

A method for enabling direct addressing of specific wsdl and / or xsd files within a web services application containing multipart files with relative imports. A virtual addressing scheme allows the files to be identified within a virtual / wsdl / directory that is appended to the endpoint URL. The desired filename is then placed after the virtual directory. When the web container of the web service application receives the endpoint request with the virtual directory, the container recognizes it as a file request and locates the requested file within the endpoint path (or sub-directory within the path). The file is then returned to the requestor along with the SOAP address.

The invention belongs to the field of file systems and relates to a method for prolonging service life of nonvolatile storage with a reconfigurable file system directory tree. The method is characterized in that a memory virtual directory tree is included, update of metadata of the file system directory tree is recorded into a memory without being written back to a persistent directory tree, and a tree structure of the file system directory tree is provided by means of an embedded link method, namely, a manner of embedding index link information in indexed pages; the content of the file system directory tree provided by a persistent metadata log type written-in method is upgraded, namely a manner of compressing a plurality of metadata pages and writing in the compressed pages in the form of logs; after failure recovery, the file system directory tree is rapidly constructed. According to the method for prolonging service life of nonvolatile storage with the reconfigurable file system directory tree, the influence of metadata written-back operation on performances and service life of a storage system can be effectively relieved, and high-speed access to the metadata of the file system directory tree and fast reconstruction after failure recovery are provided.

The invention discloses a remote storage system and a method for remote storage thereof. The remote storage system manages files by means of virtual directories, organizes the files and the directories according to the structural way, records remote storage configuration by utilizing nodes as units, and organizes different remote files for local service by means of virtual directories. The remote storage system comprises a client side program and a server side program and realizes the cloud storage of mass data while quickly calling frequently-used data simultaneously by the aid of data exchange of a cache storage space between a private storage space and a cloud storage space.

A computer implemented system and process for aggregating files from multiple Cloud servers provides into one or more seamless virtual directories. File types can be combined to create unique multimedia Shows, with added special effects and transitions. The Shows can be streamed to multiple device types or saved for later viewing. Shows can be pushed out to devices, viewed on-demand or by schedule and Cloud subscribers can change show content by changing media residing in their individual Clouds.

A virtual directory name (TRAVEL) having a form not specified in the DCF Standard is employed as a recording name in a directory (101TOSHI) recorded in a file management structure complying with the DCF Standard, whereas a virtual directory management file which corresponds to the virtual directory name (TRAVEL) and the name (101TOSHI) of a directory of the DCF Standard corresponding thereto is created to record in a recording medium.

A mobile application platform enables a user of a mobile device to manage Personalized Offline Web Applications (POW Apps) on a variety of devices. A Virtual Directory (VD) technology that is multi-source capable permits the POW code and content to be variably localized (Developer / User controls POW content / code stored on the user's device). The end user enters login information into a mobile application that is using the engine of the mobile application platform and receives POW code and content individually configured to the end user. A content manager or publisher controls what aspects of the POW application are stored locally and what aspects are kept on the server. When content is requested that is not stored locally, the content is either downloaded and opened locally or accessed on the web server like in the case of a streaming video or audio. After viewing any portion of the video or audio file, the user can decide to download the entire video or audio for offline use. The user is given this option or the content developer can predetermine how different types of POW code and content are handled through configuration settings. In addition to accessing or downloading online content, periodic communication back to the mobile application platform cloud can be implemented to get updates to the content and report back user activity, such as test scores and usage statistics.

The invention discloses a Linux kernel module relation extracting method based on compiling options. The method includes the steps of 1), dividing kernel source codes according to the functions and logic relations of the same to form virtual directories; 2), performing syntactic analysis on each Kconfig file under Linux real directories to identify all the compiling options; analyzing the source code file required by each compiling option from the compiling file under the same directory; 3), according to the virtual directories, using the source code files as intermediary agents, dividing the compiling options into corresponding virtual directories; 4), performing regular analysis on each source code file to obtain the function and variable defined in the source code file; 5), analyzing the specific realizing source code of each function and variable to extract the calling relations among functions and variables; 6), constructing a kernel framework according to the relations. The method has the advantages the method does not rely on one kernel version, and the relations among kernel modules can be obtained clearly.

The embodiments of the invention provide a file display method and device, a storage medium and a mobile terminal. The method comprises the steps of receiving a first message sent by an MTP initiator, and feeding an access interface for a preset virtual directory structure back to the MTP initiator; when receiving an access request for the preset virtual directory structure sent by the MTP initiator, feeding folder information in the preset virtual directory structure back to the MTP initiator so that the MTP initiator displays corresponding folders; when receiving an access request for displayed target folders from the MTP initiator, acquiring file handles of files corresponding to the target folders and feeding the acquired file handles back to the MTP initiator so that the MTP initiator can display corresponding files. The technical solution can increase file access and display efficiency.

The invention relates to a DFS (distributed file system) virtual directory organization and name-space management method including the following steps: file metadata of the file system is adopted according to a user inquiry request and a context to compute on-demand and dynamically generate the virtual directory in the relational algebra means so as to provide file serves matching the present context in hierachical form of the virtual file view for the user; the operations of creating, deleting, moving, renaming, opening, closing, reading, writing and cutting to files and operations of creating, deleting and renaming to context directories can be carried out in the virtual directory name-space. The invention has the beneficial effects that the adoption of the computed on-demand and dynamically generated virtual directory in a large-scale mass file storage system overcomes the defect that the traditional hierachical directory structure cannot provide services on demand, and provides the high effective file search and organization form. The adoption of file metadata including file attributes and contexts in the organization process of the virtual directory can actively provide file serves for the user according to the changing of the contexts.

Systems and methods are disclosed for tagging and translating database objects and relationships into sentences. The successive composition of these sentences form hierarchies which encode contextual information about the objects. A virtual directory / context server functions using a common abstraction layer to access data from databases, applications, directories, Web Services, and other data sources within the enterprise. The virtual directory / context server includes a sentence / context builder module that enables the translation or relationships between data and from the plurality of data sources into a human-readable form, for example, an English language sentence. Thus, applications can view, access, and / or modify the data from the data sources of the enterprise through the virtual directory / context server, for example, using the sentences representative of the relationships between the data. The sentences are indexed, which allows for searches that bring information not only about objects, but also about the context in which those objects appear.

The invention discloses a file servicing method based on ContextFS context file system, which comprises the following steps: utilizing each kind of portable calculating equipment and sensor in the space or user to acquire the context information in the space for user; affirming the ID; affirming the preference context of user according to the historic operation or historic data of self-defined preference; constructing virtual catalog and virtual file according to the file element data and context information in the file system; recording the user and context information by file system to store and transmit to the context file system when the user accesses the virtual catalog and virtual file. The invention is characterized by positive service, which reorganizes to generate virtual catalog and virtual file.

The invention discloses a file management method and a file management system using a virtual storage directory. In the system, files and the directory are organized in a structural mode, wherein nodes record the positions of the application, files, and directory and the storage and access strategies, wherein the storage and access strategies comprise information such as a synchronization strategy, a storage address, reference counting, authorized management and the like, and the files in the network are effectively organized together in a virtual directory mode. According to the invention, a transparent file management and calling method of cloud storage is provided for users, and file version management and data synchronization of distributed storage are realized conveniently.

A method for hierarchically processing LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) operations against a SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) directory is provided. The method includes providing an LDAP Directory Information Tree (DIT) including a plurality of LDAP DIT entries that describe LDAP containers, users and groups, providing a SCIM directory including a plurality of SCIM resource entries that describe SCIM users and groups, migrating the plurality of LDAP DIT entries to the SCIM directory, receiving, from an LDAP-based application over a network, an LDAP operation request, processing the LDAP operation request, and returning an LDAP operation response to the LDAP-based application over the network.

A server issues a virtual directory name at the beginning of a session, and a client redirects to a page at or below the virtual directory name. The server changes the virtual directory name to a physical name during the tracking in the session, and implements a method to a resource specified by the physical directory name. If necessary, the server identifies the user having an access under the virtual directory name when implementing the method. When the user moves within the physical directory structured to be present at or below the virtual directory (that is, during the session management), the user moves from one link to another by a relative path.

Te invention relates to the search technology, and provides an index file creation synchronized method and a search system aiming at the disadvantages that the existing index construction program occupies more system resources; the index file creation synchronized method comprises the following steps: an index creation command is received, service identification is extracted, and a source service document is read under the corresponding source directory; when the source service document and a target service document are judged to be different, the target service document is updated according to the source service document; a source index file is generated for the updated target service document, and a target index file is updated according to the source index file; an index server leads the updated target index file to be copied to a local virtual directory of an index file storage directory, which is attached to a search server by SSHFS progress, so as to lead the target index file to be transferred to the index file storage directory. The invention further provides a search system; the index creation and synchronization efficiency can be effectively improved and the operating complexity is reduced.

The invention relates to an efficient dynamic path analytic method based on a ContextFS context file system, comprising the following steps: firstly, a user access preference and a file access behavioral pattern are determined through analysis of historical context information; secondly, a virtual directory path is selected from out-of-order virtual directories according to the file access behavioral pattern and the current user context information; thirdly, the importance degree of files is divided according to a user custom, the user access preference and the file access behavioral pattern; buffer file paths or the files are classified respectively on a mainframe (UH) on which the user is positioned, a metadata server (MS) and a file server (FS); the efficiency of path analysis is improved through a multistage buffer mechanism. The efficient dynamic path analytic method has the advantages that: the virtual directory path is determined by utilization of the file access behavioral pattern and the current context trend, and the multistage buffer mechanism is adopted on the file paths or the files for improving the efficiency of path analysis according to the user custom, the user access preference and the file assess behavioral pattern, thereby the file access performance of the ContextFS file system is improved.