Moving Mobile phone data over cloud

An overview

As this generation poised to be smarter with the usage of smart phones and keeping themselves connected to the world all the time with  access to internet from anywhere anytime at their fingertips; its essential for them to have backup of their crucial data in case of mobile being stolen or lost. These smart devices help them keep their social profile up to date and informed about current events. Almost every single college graduate or school pass out would have Hotmail or Gmail accounts and hence giving them access to freely available space on internet through cloud services like SkyDrive or Google docs with capacity of around 5 GB.Hence this idea of moving such important data like mobile contacts, photos, messages, songs etc. over the cloud platforms like SkyDrive would create a redundant copy of it for your back up.

Formulating the concept from this idea

I have gone through the web before putting down this on the paper; there are few applications available in the market which talks about the same idea you may also find one organisation specifically into this segment but they concentrate more on mobile data security and I guess they would all be paid application.

My idea is to have a software or application developed with a smaller size and compact in nature to make it available over the internet for any user basically enabling them to have their data backup being done semi-automatically if not automatically. And which can also be made available with mobile manufacturers optionally if they want to have it.

 Here I am trying to formulate the concept with a block diagram depicting the necessary work to be done at each step.

As shown above the user downloads the app from internet and installs it over his mobile device it should be compatible with at least the top mobile operating systems which also should be very compact and small package to download or install, once installed it will capture the basic information of the user and then it will check if the user is logged into any of cloud app and then prompt user to select the files he wants to backup or give an option what type of files he want to move to that space over SkyDrive or goggle doc.

Once this is done it would interact with the application over internet and establish a connection with it. Then it will create some default folders like contacts, photos, songs etc. and save the data accordingly.

It would also look for the new updates or changes in the files and track them with new files movement over the app space over regular duration or it should overwrite the contents.

Security to the files saved over these apps can be provided with passwords to the folders or using any other software but this should at least enable a normal user to have back up of his important files of size lesser than 5 GB hence he can have data which can be used anytime from anywhere.

Scope

Application of this type will have appeal to every mobile user who uses cloud specific apps and would help them to save their important data as a backup. By making it freely available over internet it would be a possession one would want to have.

Challenges

•     Creating an API i.e. an interface to Synch with mobile OS and cloud appSecurity of the files
•           Automating the process of keeping files updated at regular intervals
•          Some of the cloud apps need desktop agent to save more than 2GB data

Advantages

•    Anybody would want to have backup of their contacts or some files kept over safe place from where it can be retrieved anytime from anywhere with just access to internet
•       No need of having those files saved in a physical media which has chances of losing or being stolen
•       If being made available free of cost people would definitely show an interest
•       It can be used as a Temporary back up for important files
•       If provided with additional features like file security; would add value to it
•   Can be helpful to mobile application stack developers where this can bundled with other apps as a value addition
•    It can add value to users if this can be integrated with more features like keeping track of un used apps or the apps never used .(helping users to delete unused apps when notified or have a track of applications installed on mobile device)

    Conclusion

          It would help us to reach to the larger audience in the mobile computing or mobility field showing our interests in this domain and being ready to help society applying technology in simplest of the things. It will help them solve their problems; creating value to ourselves.