Patent ID: 9584623
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Claim:
1. A data sharing method of a terminal, the method comprising: displaying, when a data type is selected on a setting menu screen of a cloud service, meta information of real data corresponding to the selected data type, the meta information being downloaded from a server; downloading, when a piece of meta information is selected, the real data corresponding to the selected piece of meta information from the server; deleting, when the downloaded real data is consumed completely, the consumed real data if a meta information mode is set to a meta only on mode; and storing the downloaded real data after being consumed if the meta information mode is set to a meta only off mode, wherein, in the meta only on mode, the downloaded real data is stored in a cache memory temporally while the downloaded real data is being used, wherein the meta only off mode is switched to the meta only on mode based on a first threshold value, and wherein the meta only on mode is switched to the meta only off mode based on a second threshold value, and the first threshold value is greater than the second threshold value.