Remote Document List Synchronization Across Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in accessing recently accessed documents across different systems, as existing technologies do not efficiently synchronize or provide access to such documents between local and remote systems, making it inconvenient to retrieve previously viewed or edited files from remote locations.
Innovation Solution
A computing system with a manager module that maintains a list of recently accessed documents on a remote system, allowing a local system to retrieve and display this list, enabling users to select and access documents from the remote system with simplified interactions, using configuration files and authentication information to establish connections and retrieve document lists.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users access documents on a remote system, then document availability is improved, but access complexity increases due to needing to specify document details such as name and location
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-fetches and stores metadata about recently accessed documents from the remote system before the user needs to access them. When the user connects to the remote system, this pre-collected information is immediately available, eliminating the need for users to manually search for or specify document details.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a local copy or representation of the remote system's recently accessed documents list on the local system. This copy contains essential document metadata that mirrors the remote system's state, allowing users to access documents without directly querying the remote system each time.
2Ease of operation
If the system synchronizes recently accessed documents between local and remote systems, then user convenience is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential metadata (document names, recent access information) from the remote system rather than synchronizing entire document contents or complex system states. This selective extraction reduces the synchronization burden while maintaining user convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a local agent or intermediary component that handles synchronization between the local and remote systems. This intermediary manages the complexity of communication and data exchange, shielding users from system complexity while enabling convenient access.
3Speed
If the system stores and manages lists of recently accessed documents, then access speed is improved, but information storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent stores detailed document metadata locally on the user's system where frequent access occurs, while maintaining a lighter representation or summary on remote systems. This local caching of access information speeds up retrieval without requiring proportional increases in overall storage capacity.
Data Source
AI summary
Simplifying access to documents accessed recently on a remote system. In one embodiment, the list of documents accessed by a user using a first instance of an application in a first/remote system is maintained. The list of documents is provided/displayed to the same user when using a second instance of the same application on a second/local system, thereby facilitating the user to access the documents accessed recently on the remote system.