CN101587475A - File sharing method and system for obtaining network access address through address conversion server - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a file sharing method, which comprises the following steps: transmitting information of storage content to be shared by a storage device to an addressing server; and the address conversion server determines a network access address mapped to the storage content to be shared according to the information. One advantage of the file sharing method is that the user who wants to share the file does not need to apply for the network storage space in advance and upload the file in advance.

Description

File sharing method and system for obtaining network access address through forwarding server

technical field

The invention relates to a file sharing mechanism, in particular to a file sharing method and a file sharing system for obtaining a network access address through a forwarding server.

Background technique

Generally speaking, there are many methods for remote file access through the network, such as through the File Transfer Protocol (File Transfer Protocol, FTP), point-to-point transmission (Peer-to-peer, P2P), the network neighborhood of the Microsoft operating system or E-mail (E-mail) can achieve this purpose, and with the development of the World Wide Web (WWW), more and more network operations are carried out through a web browser (Web Browser), including blogs. (Blog) and web email (Webmail), etc., and remote file access is also one of them.

Traditionally, there are several methods for accessing remote files through a web browser. The first known method is to upload the file to be shared to a network space and copy it to the website; and the user who wants to download the file can download the file through the interface provided by the webpage by clicking, but, This method must first apply for enough network space, and there is an additional procedure for data uploading; another known method is to transfer files through email software, but this method needs to open the receiving software, and will waste disks repeatedly space.

Contents of the invention

Therefore, one of the objectives of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems by utilizing a file sharing method and a file sharing system of a forwarding server.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a file sharing method is provided. The method includes: transmitting the information of the storage content to be shared by a storage device to a forwarding server; and the forwarding server determines a network access address mapped to the storage content to be shared according to the information.

While providing the above-mentioned file sharing method, the present invention also provides a corresponding file sharing system. The file sharing system includes: a first user terminal and a forwarding server. The first user terminal includes: a storage device, which stores the storage content to be shared; and a control device, which is used to output information of the storage content to be shared. The forwarding server is coupled to the first user end, and is used for determining a network access address mapped to the storage content to be shared according to the information.

It can be seen from the above that, compared with the aforementioned first known file sharing method, the file sharing mechanism in the embodiment of the present invention does not need to apply for network space in advance, and can share files without uploading files in advance. On the other hand, compared with In the aforementioned second known file sharing method, the file sharing mechanism of the embodiment of the present invention can perform file sharing without wasting procedures and disk space required by e-mail.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic functional block diagram of a file sharing system provided according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the file sharing system shown in FIG. 1 .

Detailed ways

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a functional block diagram of a file sharing system 100 provided by an embodiment of the present invention. The file sharing system 100 includes a first client 110 , a forwarding server 140 , a second client 150 and a web server 160 . In addition, the first user terminal 110 includes a storage device 120 and a control device 130 . In this embodiment, the first client terminal 110 is the file provider, and the second client terminal 150 is the file accessor. For the first client terminal 110, the content of the file to be shared is stored in In the storage device 120 itself, in addition, the control device 130 is used to output the information (such as directory structure, file name, storage location, etc.) of the storage content to be shared. Please note that the file to be shared may include a single file, a single directory or a directory tree, that is, the file sharing mechanism does not limit the type or data volume of the file to be shared.

Please refer to Figure 2. FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the file sharing system 100 shown in FIG. 1 . Without affecting the technical disclosure of the present invention, the flow shown in FIG. 2 only shows steps related to this case. The operation of the file sharing mechanism in the embodiment of the present invention can be briefly summarized as follows: Step 210 : the first client 110 connects to the forwarding server 140 through its control device 130 .

Step 220 : Output the information of the stored content to be shared to the forwarding server 140 .

Step 230: The forwarding server 140 will map the file/directory to be shared by the first client terminal 110 to a network access address, such as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator, URL), and then send the URL back to the first user terminal 110.

Step 240: The first client terminal 110 embeds the obtained mapped URL into a web page and displays it on the web server 160.

Step 250: After the second user terminal 150 clicks the URL via the webpage provided by the web server 160, the first user terminal 110 and the second user terminal 150 directly establish a connection, and read the first user terminal 110 content shared above.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 at the same time. The operation of the file sharing mechanism of the embodiment of the present invention is further described in detail as follows. First of all, the user must first determine the storage content (such as a video file) to be shared in the first user terminal 110 (such as a personal computer), and then, after the video file to be shared is selected, the control device 130 provides The application programming interface (Application Programming Interface, API) is just responsible for actively connecting with the forwarding server 140, so that the relevant file information (such as the network address of the first user terminal 110, the file/directory to be shared) of the selected video file name and size, directory tree structure, etc.) to inform the forwarding server 140, in this embodiment, the forwarding server 140 will determine that the video file to be shared is mapped to a website according to the file information provided by the application program interface, and then, The forwarding server 140 reports the determined URL to the API of the first user terminal 110 for subsequent file sharing operations. Therefore, with the assistance of the forwarding server 140, the user can easily know the URL. The URL corresponding to the video file. In this embodiment, the user can embed the URL provided by the forwarding server 140 into the webpage provided by the web server 160 in any known way to achieve the purpose of sharing the URL, that is, other users can By browsing the webpage provided by the webpage server 160, the website is known. For example, the user of the first client terminal 110 can inform the user of the second client terminal 150 that there is a website on the webpage of the webpage server 160. The link information (that is, the URL) of the video file to be shared. Afterwards, the user of the second client terminal 150 can click the corresponding link on the webpage when browsing the webpage embedded with the URL, and then through the forwarding server 140 Provided URL, the first client terminal 110 and the second client terminal 150 can directly establish a connection without going through other intermediary devices. Finally, when the connection between the first client terminal 110 and the second client terminal 150 After successful establishment, the second client 150 can read the data recorded in the storage device 120 of the first client 110 through a file transfer mechanism (such as a file transfer protocol (FileTransfer Protocol, FTP) or other transfer protocols). The video file to share.

As shown in Figure 1, in this embodiment, the web server 160 can directly perform forwarding query to the forwarding server 140, so that the relevant information about the files/directories to be shared mapped by the URL provided by the forwarding server 140 can be learned (For example, provide the user-side network address of the file/directory to be shared and the name of the file/directory to be shared, etc.), however, this is only for illustrative purposes and is not a limitation of the present invention, that is, without violating Under the spirit of the present invention, any design changes belong to the category of the present invention.

Please note that in the above embodiment, in order to achieve the purpose of file sharing, the user of the first client terminal 110 embeds the mapping URL of the storage content to be shared into the web page so that other users can read the storage content to be shared. content, however, the present invention is not limited thereto, and other ways of publishing the URL provided by the forwarding server 140 are also feasible. For example, in other embodiments of the present invention, when the first user terminal 110 After the user receives the mapped URL information provided by the forwarding server 140, he can transmit the URL information to the user of the second user terminal 150 via email, and then the user of the second user terminal 150 You can click the URL link contained in the e-mail to achieve the same purpose of directly establishing the connection between the first client terminal 110 and the second client terminal 150 and reading the storage content to be shared in the first client terminal 110 .

Although the present invention has been disclosed above with preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Those skilled in the art can make some changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the present invention The scope of protection is based on the claims of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. a file sharing method is characterized in that, includes:

With the information transmission of the stored contents desiring to share to changeing the location server; And

Above-mentioned commentaries on classics location server decides the network access address that is mapped to the above-mentioned stored contents of desiring to share according to above-mentioned information.

2. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that other includes:

According to the above-mentioned stored contents of desiring to share of above-mentioned network access address direct access.

3. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that other includes:

Above-mentioned network access address is embedded in the webpage.

4. method according to claim 2 is characterized in that, wherein the step according to the above-mentioned stored contents of desiring to share of above-mentioned network access address direct access includes:

Click above-mentioned network access address embedded in the above-mentioned webpage with the above-mentioned stored contents of desiring to share of direct access.

5. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, wherein above-mentioned network access address meets network address (Uniform Resource Locator, URL) form.

6. a file sharing system is characterized in that, includes:

First user end includes:

Storage device, it stores the stored contents of desiring to share; And

Change the location server, be coupled to above-mentioned first user end, be used for being mapped to the network access address of the above-mentioned stored contents of desiring to share according to above-mentioned information decision.

7. file sharing system according to claim 6 is characterized in that other includes:

Second user end is used for according to the direct above-mentioned stored contents of desiring to share of said storage unit access in above-mentioned first user end in above-mentioned network access address.

8. file sharing system according to claim 6 is characterized in that other includes:

Web page server is used to provide webpage, and wherein above-mentioned network access address is embedded in the above-mentioned webpage.

9. file sharing system according to claim 7 is characterized in that, wherein above-mentioned second user's end points is chosen and stated above-mentioned network access address embedded in the webpage with the above-mentioned stored contents of desiring to share of direct access.

10. file sharing system according to claim 6 is characterized in that, wherein above-mentioned network access address meets network address (Uniform Resource Locator, URL) form.

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