Patent ID: 9116911
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a remote file structure residing on a remote drive storing a plurality of files; a local file structure operating at a local computer coupled to the remote file structure by a network, wherein the local file structure resides at a local drive; a file sharing authorizer for receiving user credentials; a user interface, at the local computer, for specifying a user-specified filtering criterion to access the files of the remote file structure as shared files; and a logic component configured to only map the files in the remote drive to the local drive that meet the user-specified criterion in a form of a regular expression, wherein the mapping is based on the user credentials, wherein the mapped files meet the user-specified filtering criterion and are used for subsequent file operations at the local file structure, wherein the user-specified filtering criterion comprises at least one user filter for selecting files of the remote drive as the shared files of said mapping of the drives, and wherein the regular expression is a pattern that describes how matching is to be performed and comprises a character range and a character position.