MAKING A USER'S DATA, SETTINGS, AND LICENSED CONTENT AVAILABLE IN THE CLOUD

摘要

A cloud-based computer system changes the modern paradigm from being device-centric to being person-centric. The system makes all user data, software settings, device settings, and licensed content for a user available in the cloud. The system includes a conversion mechanism that can convert information intended for one device type to a different device type. Thus, a user changing smart phone platforms can convert their current smart phone settings to equivalent settings on the new phone platform, and their new phone can then be configured using the user's converted settings stored in the cloud. By storing all the user's relevant information in the cloud, this information may be accessed anywhere and may be used to configure a large number of different devices according to the user's settings.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method executing on at least one processor comprising:
storing user data corresponding to a first user in a cloud-based account corresponding to the first user; storing user settings corresponding to the first user for a plurality of physical devices in the cloud-based account corresponding to the first user; providing in the cloud-based account corresponding to the first user a plurality of virtual devices that correspond to the plurality of physical devices, wherein each of the plurality of virtual devices automatically synchronizes changes made by the first user to data in a corresponding physical device to the corresponding virtual device and to the user data in the cloud-based account, automatically synchronizes changes made by the first user to user settings in the physical device to the corresponding virtual device and to the user settings in the cloud-based account, automatically synchronizes changes made by the first user to the user data in the cloud-based account to the virtual device and to the corresponding physical device, and automatically synchronizes changes made by the first user to the user settings in the cloud-based account to the virtual device and to the corresponding physical device; and making the user data and the user settings available to the first user on a first physical device used by the first user.