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(12) United States Patent

Jiang et al.

(io) Patent No.: (45) Date of Patent:

US 7,584,225 B2 Sep. 1, 2009

(54) BACKUP AND RESTORE MIRROR

DATABASE MEMORY ITEMS IN THE
HISTORICAL RECORD BACKUP
ASSOCIATED WITH THE CLIENT
APPLICATION IN A MOBILE DEVICE
CONNECTED TO A COMMUNION
NETWORK

(75) Inventors: Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, San Jose, CA
(US); Christopher Wu, Atherton, CA
(US); Joy Sato, San Jose, CA (US);
Yingqing Lawrence Cui, San Jose, CA
(US)

(73) Assignee: Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)

( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 567 days.

(21) Appl.No.: 10/933,829

(22) Filed: Sep. 2, 2004

(65) Prior Publication Data

US 2005/0102329 Al May 12, 2005

(58) Field of Classification Search 707/1 2,

707/10, 102, 104.1, 204-205, 200; 455/550.1, 455/418^120, 565, 567, 456.1, 557; 340/506, 340/531; 709/203,245-246; 711/161-162 See application file for complete search history.

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FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS

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Primary Examiner—Srirama Channavajjala

(7'4) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Darby & Darby PC; Jamie L.

Wiegand

U.S. CI 707/204; 707/1; 707/10;

707/102; 707/200; 711/162; 709/203

The need for backup and restore arises in a mobile device based system when a client application is discarded along with its historical record. In a system that provides the backup and restore capability, a server is configured with a request handler, an application storage upload/download handler, and a device storage mirror database. In a mobile device (also client), the transaction listener provides a transaction associated with memory items to the crumb sticker which, in turn, sends to the request handler a recording request with the transaction along with a request URL (uniform resource locator). The data for the recording request is channeled from the client storage to the device storage mirror database via the application storage upload/download handler. The memory items are accumulated in a file at the client and in a backup at the device storage mirror database, and are restorable to the client from the backup.

29 Claims, 17 Drawing Sheets

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