A system and method for implementing online file storage based on a real-time communication platform

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a communication system for implementing online file storage based on an instant messaging (IM) platform and a method thereof, the method includes: an IM client transmits an online storage operation request of a file to an online file storage access server via a communication network; the online file storage access server interacts with the online file storage server to implement the online storage operation according to the online storage operation request, and returns the result of operation to the IM client via the communication network. By using the communication system and method provided by the embodiments of the present invention, a user can implement various online storage operations such as file storing, deleting, sharing, copying and the like via the existed IM client, without downloading a special online file storage client. By doing so, the operation is simple, and functions and storing and reading speeds the same as the ones provided by the online storage in the special client-based mode can be achieved.