Storage and recovery of digital data based on social network
US10013682B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 13, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jul 3, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 5, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/306
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Backup and restore of digital data may utilize online social network parameters of a user to determine a number of parts into which to divide digital data and distribute the parts. A list of friends from the social network friends may be selected, e.g., based on a relationship to the user in the social network, to store the parts. The parts may be stored in a friend's device memory, each of the parts stored with a different friend. The digital data may be reconstructed by obtaining a threshold number of parts from the friends.
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