Patent ID: 7987153

Claim:
A method for automatically migrating user work data in a virtual ring, network, wherein the virtual ring network comprises two or more work data migration apparatuses, wherein each work data migration apparatus is connected to a corresponding work device, the method comprising: detecting, at a first automatic work data migration apparatus, that a user either is near or has left the vicinity of a first work device corresponding to the first automatic work data migration apparatus; in response to detecting that the user has left the vicinity of the first work device, the first automatic work data migration apparatus performing the steps of: collecting the user work data from the first work device and storing the collected user work data in the first automatic work data migration apparatus; and providing storage location information of the user work data to one or more other automatic work data migration apparatuses via the virtual ring network; and in response to detecting that the user is near the first work device, the first automatic work data migration apparatus performing the steps of: retrieving storage location information of the user work data, where the storage location information states that the storage location of the user work data is another automatic work data migration apparatus; downloading the user work data from the another work data migration apparatus via the virtual ring network and providing the downloaded user work data to the first work device.