Patent ID: 7987213
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data storage system, comprising: a communication network; a plurality of portable data storage devices coupled to the network; a device for storing a profile-based storage control arrangement, wherein the control arrangement performs matching of received data objects with storage profiles for different portable data storage devices of the plurality of portable data storage devices by accessing a respective storage profile that defines respective classes of data objects that should be stored for each respective one of the portable data storage devices, further wherein each respective one of the portable data storage devices stores data objects that are matched according to its respective storage profile; and a recommender arrangement coupled to the network for automatically generating a recommended storage profile for at least one of the portable data storage devices, wherein the recommender arrangement (i) collects profile information about storage profiles for further at least one of the portable data storage devices other than the at least one of the portable data storage devices and/or data object information about properties of data objects stored by the further at least one of the portable data storage devices other than the at least one of the portable data storage devices, and (ii) uses the collected profile information and/or the data object information to guide the automatic generation of the recommended storage profile for the at least one of the portable data storage devices.