Cloud Phone App Mounting via Shared Files to Cut Storage Overhead
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Solution Overview
Problem
The installation and update of applications in large numbers of cloud phones require significant storage space and incur high operation and maintenance costs, leading to stalling issues during startup and running, which degrade user experience.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-phone-based application installation method that utilizes a network shared file system to synchronize installation information across multiple cloud phones, allowing them to mount and update applications without local installation, using an object storage device for management and a multi-layer file system for read-only access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If applications are installed in each cloud phone, then application availability is ensured, but storage space occupation increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the application storage function from individual cloud phones to a centralized network shared file system. Multiple cloud phones share the same application files stored in the network shared file, eliminating redundant storage across devices while maintaining application availability through shared access.
Solution Approach 2:
The network shared file system serves as a universal storage resource that can be accessed by multiple cloud phones simultaneously. This multi-functional storage solution replaces individual device storage, allowing any cloud phone to access any application without requiring local installation, thus reducing overall storage requirements while ensuring application availability.
2Reliability
If applications are installed in each cloud phone, then application functionality is maintained, but operation and maintenance costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the application storage and management function from individual cloud phones and places it in the network shared file system. This separation allows centralized management of applications, where updates and maintenance operations are performed once in the shared file system rather than individually on each cloud phone, significantly reducing operation and maintenance costs while preserving application functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The network shared file system acts as an intermediary between application distribution and cloud phone execution. It provides a centralized platform for application storage, version management, and updates, mediating between the need for application functionality and the desire to reduce maintenance overhead by enabling bulk operations on shared resources.
3Reliability
If applications are installed in each cloud phone, then application access is immediate, but startup speed decreases due to system stalling
Solution Approach 1:
By merging application storage into the network shared file system, the patent reduces the total number of application copies across the system. This consolidation decreases system resource contention and reduces the likelihood of stalling during application startup, as fewer duplicate files need to be managed and loaded, thereby improving startup speed while maintaining application access through shared mounting.
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AI summary
A cloud platform provides a cloud phone configuration interface for a user to configure a template cloud phone based on a first input of the user. The cloud platform then provides a network shared file configuration interface for the user to store a directory of the template cloud phone into a first network shared file based on a second input of the user, and then configure, based on a third input of the user, at least one to-be-configured cloud phone to mount the first network shared file, to complete installation of a plurality of applications. Therefore, the cloud phone installs, updates, and uninstalls the applications by mounting the network shared file.