Unified Storage Management for Multi-Provider File Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in managing and sharing files stored across multiple disparate remote storage systems, requiring separate logins and applications, and recipients must access shared files through multiple links, making it cumbersome to access, organize, and share files.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method for a remote storage management system that allows users to create a unified cloud drive from files stored across different remote storage systems, enabling a single access link for sharing and access, without requiring recipients to have accounts with the storage service providers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users store files across multiple disparate remote storage systems, then file storage capacity and service variety are improved, but system complexity and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a remote storage management system that acts as an intermediary between users and multiple remote storage systems. This management system provides a unified interface that abstracts the complexity of different storage providers, allowing users to access files from multiple storage systems through a single system without dealing with the underlying complexity of each individual provider.
Solution Approach 2:
The remote storage management system implements universality by designing a single interface that can access and manage files across multiple different remote storage systems. The system generates unified access links that work across all connected storage systems, making the interface universally applicable regardless of which storage provider the files are hosted with.
2Quantity of substance
If users use multiple remote storage systems, then file storage capacity is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple remote storage systems into a unified access interface. Users can select files from different storage systems and create cloud drives that combine files from multiple providers. The system generates single access links that consolidate access to files from multiple storage systems, eliminating the need for users to manage multiple separate access points.
Solution Approach 2:
The management system serves as a mediator that handles the complexity of accessing multiple storage systems. It provides a simplified user interface where users can browse, select, and organize files from different providers without needing to understand or interact with each provider's separate interface or authentication mechanisms.
3Reliability
If separate access links are generated for files from different storage systems, then file access control is improved, but productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple access links into a single unified access link. When users share files from multiple storage systems, the management system generates one consolidated access link that provides access to all selected files regardless of their source storage system. This maintains access control through the management system while dramatically improving productivity by eliminating the need for recipients to manage multiple separate links.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for managing data files spread across different remote storage systems are described. A remote storage management system can provide a unified file system that interacts with different remote storage services to allow a user to manage, from one interface, the user's data stored in different source systems. The remote storage management system may allow a user to create sharable cloud drives with combination of files from the unified file system irrespective of which service provider is storing the files. The generated cloud drive can be shared with a recipient to give the recipient access to the user's files. The recipient is not required to have an account with any of the remote storage service providers or with the remote storage management system.