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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method for backing up data contained in a portable communicating terminal, in particular a Smartphone®.
• a portable communicating terminal in particular a Smartphone®.
• mobile phone terminals offer many functions using or generating different types of content.
• the most recent telephone terminals are equipped with camera or camera-type image acquisition means, serve as a digital music player, a GPS® navigator, make it possible to manage a calendar, to navigate and to consult his e-mail on the Internet. , install applications downloaded from a repository, etc.
• the recorded data corresponds to different types of information: contact directories stored in the phone and in the SIM card, photo, video and audio files, files stored in the internal memory of the device or in a removable medium such as a memory card, files corresponding to calendar events, emails, and data created by the various installed programs.
• the importance of different data is variable.
• multimedia data and programs can sometimes be considered as less important because they can be reloaded from another device or server.
• telephone operators or other companies, allow remote backup of contact directories.
• the restoration of the data is only possible from the device, in this case a microcomputer, with which synchronization has been performed.
• the synchronized data is attached to a single device and it is not generally expected to be able to easily transfer from the storage space to another device.
• the size of the storage space allocated to each device is limited, and the user must support the organization and management of the data transferred to the storage space.
• none of the existing solutions is similar to a method allowing automatic backup, ie without triggering by the user or by an action of the user to connect the device to another device, from all the data contained in the device as well as a restoration of said data on another device in case of loss or theft. Also, it is an object of the present invention to overcome the disadvantages of these various methods of the prior art by providing a method of saving data contained in a portable communicating terminal, such as a Smartphone®, to ensure a transfer secure, confidential storage, and optimized and automated management of all of said data on a remote storage space, while not requiring manipulation of another external device or triggering by a user action.
• Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for saving data shared between several terminals.
• the backup method according to the invention also provides the possibility of restoring said data on one or more other terminals.
• the subject of the invention is a method for backing up data contained in a portable communicating terminal, said terminal comprising at least means for processing said data, supply means, storage means for the different types of data. , display means, a user interface, and connection means for directly or indirectly connecting said terminal to a public network such as the Internet, a backup program being installed and executed by said terminal, said data stored in the terminal taking the form of different files in different formats, said method being characterized in that it provides an online backup of at least one file selected by the user of said terminal.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of the architecture of a network system that can be used for implementing the method of saving data contained in a portable communicating terminal according to the invention.
• the present invention relates to a method for saving data contained in a portable communicating terminal.
• the invention means any terminal, including telephone, likely to be connected to a public network such as the Internet, this to enable the realization of an online backup of the content of said terminal.
• the method of the invention is more particularly the terminals referred to as Smartphone®, or “smart phone” and PDA®, or "personal electronic assistant”.
• Such a portable communicating terminal 10 is illustrated schematically in FIG. 1, this terminal 10 integrating hardware and software elements creating, using and destroying different types of data. These different data constitute the content of said terminal.
• a terminal 10 comprises at least processing means 12 of said data such as a processor, power supply means 14 such as a battery, storage means 16 of the different types of data, display means 18 such as a screen, a user interface 20 such as a keyboard, one or more buttons, or a touch screen, and of course means of connection 22 to a mobile telephone network 24, or GSM®, such as the so-called Edge® networks, 3 (5 ® and 3 (5 + ®.
• a terminal 10 may also include connection means 26 to a microcomputer 28 such as that of the user of the terminal 10, for example in the form of a port and a cable called USB®, means connection 30 to a wireless public network 32 such as Wif i®, and connection means 34 to a wireless personal network 36 such as Bluetooth®.
• a microcomputer 28 such as that of the user of the terminal 10, for example in the form of a port and a cable called USB®
• connection 30 to a wireless public network 32 such as Wif i®
• connection means 34 to a wireless personal network 36 such as Bluetooth®.
• connection means 22, 26, 30 and 34 make it possible to connect, directly or indirectly, via a router or a public access point for example, the terminal 10 to a public network 38 such as the Internet, the micro- computer
• a terminal 10 may be equipped with image capturing means 40, camera or camera type, geolocation means 42, such as a GPS® chip, these additional equipment generating and also using data that may require backup.
• the storage means 16 are composed of a random access memory 44 and a read only memory 46 and they can also include removable storage means 48 such as a memory card inserted in a slot provided for this purpose.
• the operation of said hardware elements is coordinated by an operating system to which can be added, simultaneously or later, various applications or programs.
• the backup method according to the invention provides for the installation and execution of a suitable backup program, in particular by the presentation of its interface, to each operating system, for example Windows Mobile®, Linux®, Symbian®, Android®, Palm OS®, each type of terminal, including Windows Phone®, iPhone®, Gphone®, PDA or other.
• a suitable backup program for example Windows Mobile®, Linux®, Symbian®, Android®, Palm OS®, each type of terminal, including Windows Phone®, iPhone®, Gphone®, PDA or other.
• the heart of said backup program can be substantially common to all types of terminal and all types of operating system.
• system files in particular those of the register, files relating to the configuration of the terminal chosen by its user, contact files, especially in vCard format, in the form of cards.
• the method according to the invention provides the possibility of performing an online backup of at least one file F, or all of these different files of different formats contained in each type of terminal.
• the backup method provides that the backup programs adapted to each type of terminal, or operating system, use a common communication protocol with at least a first hosting center 50 via the public Internet network 38.
• said common protocol is specific to the method according to the invention.
• At least a second redundant hosting center 52 may be provided to counter any failures of said first center 50, said second redundant center 52 being preferably located in another geographical location.
• hosting centers may also be connected by a dual connection to said public Internet network 38, and in each of said centers 50 and
• the hosting servers are physically and electrically protected.
• the invention provides a supervision device 54, in particular a microcomputer , allowing the user to access the data saved in the hosting center (50,52) via the public network
• microcomputer 28 of the user can also be used as a supervision device 54.
• the first step followed by the user is to install the backup program on at least one terminal 10. Subsequently, through the interface of said backup program, the user selects a part of the content, at least one F file, said terminal he wants to save.
• the user selects at least one file F recorded in the storage means 16 of at least one terminal 10 in which the backup program is installed.
• the method according to the invention provides a triggering of the backup manually by the user, or automatically by programming at a given frequency: for example several times a day at regular intervals.
• the backup program triggers a backup from the start or wakeful output of said terminal 10.
• performing a backup is dependent on the connection of the terminal 10 to the public Internet network 38.
• the backup program seeks to connect to said center (50,52).
• the backup method provides the authentication of a terminal 10 to a center (50, 52) by at least one username, or "Login", and a password related to the license to use the backup program, as well as the unique serial number, also called IMEI, of the terminal 10. Then, once the terminal 10 recognized by the hosting center (50,52), the method according to the invention provides only to transmit identification information of each selected file from the terminal 10 to said center (50,52).
• Said identification information is at least relative to the name, size, type of said file, that is to say, its format, the date of creation or modification, and / or its signature, preferably obtained by encryption, or encryption, using a function called SHA1.
• At least one identifying information is used by the hosting center to check the integrity of the file and to check if it already contains an identical file, said file having been modified while it has already been saved in a previous version during a previous backup.
• the backup method according to the invention provides for the encryption of all the files F transmitted between a terminal 10 and a hosting center (50,52), only the user of said terminal 10 having the key to view the data contained in said encrypted files.
• the backup program allows secure transfers of the contents of the terminal.
• this also eliminates the responsibility of the host vis-à-vis the content of the terminals of its customers hosted on its servers.
• the method according to the invention provides for an incremental backup of said files F.
• said incremental backup F files can be performed as indicated in the European patent application of the same applicant and published under the reference EP-2.110.747.
• Said incremental backup generates a database grouping all the successive versions of the different files F recorded during previous backups since a given date, preferably since their creation, until the last backup.
• said incremental backup limits the amount of data transferred during a backup.
• the backup method according to the invention allows the restoration of at least one file F in an earlier version, or even of all the contents of the terminal 10 at the date any subsequent backup.
• the method according to the invention provides the possibility of performing a restoration of at least one file F in an earlier version to the terminal 10 used, or to any new replacement terminal 10, within the limit of compatibility of the format of said file, the latter possibility being particularly interesting in case of theft, loss, or destruction of the terminal 10 used initially.
• Said restoration can be carried out from the terminal 10 used, from any new replacement terminal 10, as well as from the supervision device 54, insofar as the backup program is installed on said terminal.
• the method provides for prior authentication of said terminal, of the old and the new terminal, respectively, by the hosting center (50,52) using at least one username and password related to the license to use the program. backup, as well as the unique serial number, also called IMEI, of the terminal (s).
• At least a portion of the identification information of said file is transmitted to the hosting center to enable it to find the version of said file to be restored.
• the hosting center (50,52) transmits the selected version of said file to the terminal and updates the backup database.
• This declaration preferably consists of indicating to the hosting center the unique serial number, also called IMEI, of the stolen or lost terminal.
• the method according to the invention provides the possibility of destroying the data it contains.
• the process first requires a declaration of said loss or theft at the accommodation center, the preferably by specifying the unique serial number, also called IMEI, of the stolen or lost terminal.
• IMEI unique serial number
• the request to destroy at least one file is accepted only after authentication of the old and new terminal by the hosting center (50,52) using at least one name. identifier and password related to the license to use the backup program, and using the unique serial number, also called IMEI, said terminals.
• the method subsequent to a declaration of theft or loss of the terminal used at the hosting center (50,52) and when initiating a backup, the method provides for an automatic destruction by the backup program files contained in said terminal if said terminal is identified as stolen or lost by the hosting center.
• the method provides the possibility of sharing the backup of at least one file F used by several terminals 10, and therefore by several people.
• the hosting center first checks whether the database does not already include a version of said file F containing identical data using at least one identification information, especially the size, of said file F.
• the hosting center records in the database a new version of said file, each version of said file being attached to the terminal, and therefore to the person who has modified it, by at least one identification information, especially its signature preferably obtained by encryption or encryption, using a function called SHA1.
• shared backup it may be a tariff file grouping a list of several products and their respective tariffs, said file being likely to be modified by a team of several commercial equipped with terminals 10 on each of which is installed the backup program.
• each file corresponding to a business card can have a different signature, in particular obtained using a function called SHA1. Then, during a backup, each terminal transmits the signature of the various business cards in its contact list, and the server checks the signatures to identify the business cards that its database does not list and to register the new cards visit.
• said data is encrypted to ensure confidentiality.
• said data is compressed.
• the algorithms used for the encryption and the compression of the files are exportable or adaptable according to the countries of use of the terminal.
• the incremental backup makes it possible to optimize and automate the recording of the files, in particular all the said files, contained in a terminal of the Smartphone® or PDA® type.
• said incremental backup associated with the signature of said files actually allows the backup in a remote database of at least one file shared between several terminals and modified by several users.

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