Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080270480 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DELETING FILES FROM A REMOTE SERVER - A method and system of deleting files from a remote server. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are home network system comprising a computer system comprising a keyboard and a display device, and a server coupled to the computer system (the server configured to execute an operating system program). When the operating system is commanded to delete a file from a first location (the command in response to a request from the computer system to delete a file on the server), the operating system is configured to move the file from the first location on the server to a recycle location. | 10-30-2008 |
20080270574 | RULES FOR SHARED ENTITIES OF A NETWORK-ATTACHED STORAGE DEVICE - A system comprises storage configurable, at least in part, into a plurality of shared entities. The storage comprises rules. Each rule is configurable to specify one or more of the shared entities to associate with a specified computer identity so that at least one computer identity is associatable with a different set of shared entities from at least one other computer identity. | 10-30-2008 |
20080270594 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SEPARATE FILE STORAGE LOCATIONS AS UNIFIED FILE STORAGE - Methods and systems of separate file storage locations as unified file storage. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems comprising a computer system coupled to a network, a first server coupled to the network (the first server provides a first file storage location), and a second server coupled to the network (the second server provides a second file storage location). The first server is configured to present the first file storage location and second file storage location as a unified storage location accessible through the first server. | 10-30-2008 |
20090034543 | OPERATING SYSTEM RECOVERY ACROSS A NETWORK - A system comprises a first network device and a second network device coupled via a network to the first network device. The first network device initiates a recovery across the network of an operating system of the second network device. | 02-05-2009 |
20090037560 | NETWORK-ATTACHED STORAGE DEVICE CONFIGURATION - A system comprises a computer configured using a configuration setting and a network-attached storage (NAS) device coupled to the computer via a network. The NAS device receives the configuration setting from the computer via the network and configures the NAS device using the configuration setting. | 02-05-2009 |
20090037717 | FIRMWARE RETRIEVAL ACROSS A NETWORK - A system comprises a processor and non-volatile storage coupled to the processor. The non-volatile storage comprises firmware that is executable by the processor. The processor determines whether the firmware is available to be executed. If the firmware is not available to be executed, the processor determines a location across a network and retrieves a second firmware image from that location. | 02-05-2009 |
20100115333 | DYNAMIC DRIVER LOADING FOR RECOVERY BOOT MEDIA - In one embodiment a computing device comprises at least one storage media, at least one storage media, a processor, and a memory module comprising logic instructions stored on a computer-readable medium which, when executed by a computer processor, configure the processor to detect, in the computing device, at least one file to support a communication connection with the computing device, store the at least one file on a persistent storage media, and link the at least one file to a restore library. | 05-06-2010 |
20100157478 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE OF DIGITAL ASSETS - A storage apparatus is provided. A storage apparatus can include a storage device having one or more unique device identifiers disposed in, on, or about the storage apparatus. One or more computer readable and writeable data storage areas can be disposed in, on, or about the storage apparatus. One or more computer readable data storage areas can also be disposed in, on, or about the storage apparatus. One or more computer readable instruction sets can be disposed in, on, or about the storage apparatus. The execution of all or a portion of the one or more computer readable instruction sets can be contingent upon the successful authentication of all or a portion of the one or more device identifiers. | 06-24-2010 |
20100293148 | NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE BACKUP - In one embodiment a network attached storage device comprises at least one storage media, a detection module to detect at least one computing device on a network, a configuration module to configure, in network attached storage device, backup settings, a coordination module to coordinate backup procedures, a network attached storage backup module to backup at least a portion of data from a computing device to the storage media, and a device backup module to backup only modified data from a computing device. | 11-18-2010 |
20100313066 | REMOTE BACKUP STORAGE - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a backup utility are described. One example system causes a backup utility to identify a remote device as local to a client device. Backup data may then be retained on the remote device identified by the backup utility as being local. | 12-09-2010 |
20110016398 | Slide Show - A method for displaying images of interest as a slide show including scanning metadata of images to identify the images which match one or more criteria, classifying the images which have metadata that match one or more of the criteria as the images of interest, and displaying the slide show of the images of interest on a display device. | 01-20-2011 |
20110055380 | NETWORK PROVIDING AUTOMATIC CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DEVICES BASED ON USER TASK - A system including a network; and a plurality of devices configured to be communicatively coupled to the network, each device configured to be automatically discoverable when connected to the network; wherein at least one of the devices is configured to: discover devices connected to the network; and establish a network communication link between at least two devices based on a user task. | 03-03-2011 |
20110131258 | Nas-Based Multimedia File Distribution Service - A network attached storage (NAS) device | 06-02-2011 |
20110307525 | VIRTUAL STORAGE DEVICE - A method for managing a virtual storage device including scanning ports of a device for storage devices coupled to the device and identifying file systems of the storage devices, creating a database to include entries for the storage devices and files included in the storage devices based on the file systems of the storage devices, and aggregating the files listed in the database as a virtual storage device. | 12-15-2011 |
20120008472 | PROVIDING DEVICE-LEVEL FUNCTIONALITY WITHOUT ALTERING INSTRUCTIONS STORED IN DEVICE MEMORY - Systems, methods, and machine-readable media provide device-level functionality without altering device memory. A non-transitory machine-readable medium can store a first set of instructions that are executed by the machine to provide device-level functionality unsupported by a second set of instructions stored in device memory associated with the machine without altering the second set of instructions stored in the device memory. For example, the machine can be an optical disc player and the medium can be an optical disc. | 01-12-2012 |
20120019447 | DIGITAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for configuring a digital display device including determining whether a user is viewing the digital display device with a sensor, identifying an amount of ambient light around the digital display device with the sensor, and configuring one or more display settings on the digital display device in response to whether the user is viewing the digital display device and the amount of ambient light identified. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030596 | USER INTERFACE - A method for rendering a user interface including selecting a user profile to be loaded as the user interface in response to a user accessing a digital display device, identifying and loading one or more content associated with the user profile, and rendering the user interface to include the content associated with the selected user profile for display on the digital display device. | 02-02-2012 |
20130031275 | PERIPHERAL DEVICE IDENTIFICATION FOR PAIRING - In one implementation, a pairing device provides an identify instruction to a peripheral device during a pairing process. The peripheral device generates an identification output in response to the identify instruction. | 01-31-2013 |
20130285893 | Upload An Image to a Website Server Using a Pointing Device - Uploading an image to a website server receives position data defining an image area on a display screen of an image to be uploaded. An image file is created of the image area and uploads the image to the website server. In some examples, the position data are provided by a pointing device with an image upload button. | 10-31-2013 |
20140201397 | EXPANDABLE WIRELESS STORAGE DEVICE FOR STREAMING A MUJLTI-MEDIA FILE - An expandable wireless storage device is provided that includes an interface slot, internal memory, a wireless interface and an aggregated file system view providing component. An external memory, which stores a first subset of multi-media files, can be physically coupled with the expandable wireless storage device using the interface slot. A second subset of multi-media files can be stored on the internal memory. A multi-media file of the multi-media files can be streamed to a playing device using the wireless interface. The internal memory is used as a buffer when the multi-media file resides on the external memory. An aggregated file system view providing component provides an aggregated file system view of the multi-media files. | 07-17-2014 |
20140222875 | SYSTEM HAVING AN APPARATUS THAT USES A RESOURCE ON AN EXTERNAL DEVICE - A system comprises a media player to receive a removable medium. The media player to include logic and to couple to a display device and to a device external to said media player. The external device includes storage. The media player is to cause information to be downloaded onto the external device's storage. The information to be used by said media player when playing content from said removable medium. After receiving the removable medium, the logic is to determine whether an update is available on the network for the information. The logic is to provide access to the information once stored in the external device's storage. | 08-07-2014 |