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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`APPLICANT:
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`Sheng Tai (Ted) Tsao, et al.
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`TYPE:
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`Small Entity & Continuation Application for 10/726,897
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`FILING DATE:
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`09/25/2013
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`TITLE:
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`The Method and System For Expand Storage Space For
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`Wireless Devices
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`EXAMINER:
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`Sall, El Hadji Malick
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`ART UNIT:
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`2457
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`Continuation Application for the application 10/726,897
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`Dear Madam:
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`This is filing continuation application for the application 10/726,897. Enclosed
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`please find:
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`1) A copy of Oath declaration.
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`2) A copy of the originally specification and drawings filed on 12/04/2003.
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`3) The referenced prior applications and application data sheet starts on the page 2.
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`4) A substitute Abstract starts on the page 3.
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`4) The claims start on the page 4.
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`Thanks helps from the USPTO to enter the continuation application.
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`Respectively Submitted.
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`09/25/20 1 3
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`//Shanegtai Tsao//
`Sheng Tai (Ted) Tsao
`2979 Heidi Drive,
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`San Jose, CA 95132
`408-813-0536
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`AMENDMENT TO THE ABSTRACT:
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`Please Withdraw the original abstract in the application filed on 12/04/2003 and replace it
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`Abstraction
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`To meet the needs for storing larger volume personal information for user of
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`Wireless device, it is desire to provide extra storage space to the Wireless device
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`such as for cell phone etc due to the limited storage space that the Wireless device
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`has. Instant application disclosed a system and method for the Wireless device to
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`efficiently and effectively use remotely located storage space provided by a server.
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`AMENDMENT IN THE CLAIMS:
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`1 — lO (Canceled)
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`11. (New) A method for expanding storage capacity of a wireless device, the method
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`comprising:
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`allocating via a server a storage space of a predefined capacity for the wireless
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`device, the storage space being remotely located with respect to the wireless
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`device ;
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`creating a folder structure in the storage space allocated for the wireless device;
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`establishing a link for the wireless device to access the storage space; and
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`updating the folder structure whenever a user of the wireless device via a web
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`browser executed thereof performs an operation to the folder structure created in
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`the storage space.
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`12. (New) The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the operation to the folder structure
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`comprises creating from the wireless device the folder in the folder structure.
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`13. (New) The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the operation to the folder structure
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`comprises access from the wireless device to the folder in the folder structure residing in
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`the storage space for storing data therein or retrieving data therefrom, wherein the data is
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`a file or a message.
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`14. (New) The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the operation to the folder structure
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`comprises deleting, moving, copying or renaming a file or a folder being stored in the
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`folder of the folder structure residing in the storage space.
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`15. (New) The method as recited in claim 13, filrther comprising facilitating to store a file
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`being downloaded from a web server directly into the storage space instead of
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`downloading the file into the wireless device itself.
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`16. (New) The method as recited in claim 15, wherein said facilitating to store a file being
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`downloaded from a website directly into the storage space comprises:
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`obtaining downloading information for the file;
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`transmitting the downloading information cached in the wireless device to the
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`server; and
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`causing the server in accordance with the downloading information to download
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`the file directly into the storage space.
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`17. (New) The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the folder structure is created with
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`multiple folders on a file system configured on the storage space allocated to the each of
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`the wireless devices.
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`18. (New) A system for facilitating expanding storage capacity for a plurality of wireless
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`devices, the system comprising:
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`a server configured to:
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`allocate a storage space of a predefined capacity for each of the wireless devices,
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`create a folder structure for the storage space allocated for the each of the
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`wireless devices;
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`establish a link for the each of the wireless devices access to the folder structure in
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`the storage space; and
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`update the folder structure whenever a user of the each of the wireless devices via a
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`web browser executed thereof to performs an operation to the folder structure
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`in the storage space, wherein the storage space being remotely located with
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`respect to the each of the wireless devices; ; and
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`the wireless devices, wherein each of the wireless devices is operable access to the folder
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`structure in the storage space allocated to the each of the wireless devices.
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`19. (New) The system as recited in claim 18, wherein the operation to the folder structure
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`comprises creating from the each of the wireless devices the folder in the folder
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`structure of the storage space.
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`20. (New) The system as recited in claim 19, wherein the operation to the folder structure
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`comprises access from the wireless device to the folder in the folder structure residing in
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`the storage space for storing data therein or retrieving data therefrom, wherein the data is
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`a file or message.
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`21. (New) The system as recited in claim 20, wherein the operation to the folder structure
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`comprise deleting or moving or copying or renaming from the each of the wireless
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`devices a file or a folder being stored in the folder structure of the storage space.
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`22. (New) The system as recited in claim 18, wherein the wireless device has a function
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`of making or receiving a phone call.
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`23. (New) The system as recited in claim 18, wherein the folder structure is created with
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`multiple folders on a file system configured in the storage space allocated to the each of
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`the wireless devices.
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`24. (New) The system as recited in claim 20, wherein each of the wireless devices fiarther
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`is operable to store a file being downloaded from a remote web server directly into the
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`storage space instead of downloading the file into the each of the wireless devices itself
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`25. (New) A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:
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`program code that, when executed by a server, configures the server to:
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`allocate a storage space of a predefined capacity for each of the wireless
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`devices, create a folder structure for the storage space allocated for the each of
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`the wireless devices;
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`establish a link for the each of the wireless devices access to the folder structure
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`of the storage space; and
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`update the folder structure whenever a user of the each of the wireless devices
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`via a web browser executed thereof performs an operation to the folder
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`structure of the storage space, wherein the storage space being remotely
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`located with respect to the each of the wireless devices.
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`26. (New) The program product of claim 26, wherein the operation to the folder structure
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`comprises creating, from the each of the wireless devices, a folder for the folder structure
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`in the storage space allocated to the each of the wireless devices.
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`27. (New) The program product of claim 27, wherein the operation to the folder structure
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`comprises access, from the each of the wireless devices, to the folder in the folder
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`structure for storing data therein or retrieving data therefrom, wherein the data is a file or
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`message.
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`28. (New) The program product of claim 27, wherein the operation to the folder structure
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`comprises deleting or moving or copying or renaming from the each of the wireless
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`devices a file or a folder being stored in the folder structure.
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`29. (New) The program product of claim 27, wherein each of the wireless devices further
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`is operable to store a file being downloaded from a remote web site into the storage space
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`directly instead of downloading the file into the each of the wireless devices itself.
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`30. (New) The program product of claim 29, wherein the folder structure is created with
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`multiple folders on a file system configured on the storage space allocated to the each of
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`the wireless devices.
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`The Use of Wireless Devices’ External Storage
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`By:
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`Sheng (Ted) Tai Tsao
`11/19/2003
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`Field of the Invention
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`This invention is the continuation of the previous invention, application number
`60/401, 238 of “Concurrent Web Based Multi-task Support for Control Management
`System”, where the claim 20 item a), b), d), claim 30 item b), and together with claim 36
`represent an invention of using storage of a server system as the external storage for
`wireless devices. This invention focuses on how can a wireless device user actually use
`external storage. Specially it focus on how can a wireless device to download data to its
`external storage, which its principle has preliminary described in claim 19) of previous
`invention, application number 60/402,626 of “IP Based Distributed Virtual SAN”, to
`transmit data in wireless environment.
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`Background Information
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`a) Terminology:
`The Internal Storage of a System:
`The storage media such as hard disk drives, memory sticks, memory etc is
`connected to a system directly through bus or a few inches of cable. Therefore,
`the storage media actually is a component of a system in a same enclosure.
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`The External Storage of a System:
`The storage media is not a component of a system in a same enclosure. Therefore,
`they has to be connected through longer cable such as Ethernet cable for IP based
`storage, Fiber channel cable for fiber channel storage, or wireless media etc. The
`storage media of external storage could be magnetic hard disk drives, solid sate
`disk, optical storage drives, memory card, etc. and could be in any form sUch as
`Raid, which usually consists a group of hard disk drives.
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`The Storage Partition, its Volumes, and the Corresponding File System:
`To effectively use the storage system, the storage usually needs to be partitioned
`into small volumes. Afier partition, each volumes can be used to establish file
`systems on it. To simplify the discussion, the term of the storage volume, its
`corresponding file system, and the term of the partition of a storage are used
`without differentiation in this invention.
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`CCDSVM:
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`It is an abbreviation for central controlled distributed scalable virtual machine
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`system. The CCDSVM allows a control management station to control group of
`systems and provide distributed services to client system in Internet, Intranet, and
`LAN environment.
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`ISP & ASP:
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`Internet service provider and application service provider.
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`b) Figures:
`Fig. 1: This is the same figure as Fig. 1 of “Concurrent Web Based Multi-task
`Support for Control Management System” with exception of renaming
`console host as wireless device.
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`Fig. 2: This is the same figure as Fig. 1 except that it shows the more details of
`storage system controlled by the server. In addition, multiple wireless
`devices are presented.
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`Fig. 3: This figure shows the scheme of wireless device download contents from
`ISP/ASP or other web sites to the external storage ofthis wireless device.
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`Fig. 4: This is the same figure as Fig. 1 of “[P Based Distributed Virtual SAN”
`with exception that each IP storage server provide file system as external
`storage for wireless devices instead of provide 11’ based virtual SAN
`service. Also, each host actually is a wireless device.
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`c) Assumptions:
`Unless specified, the programming language, the protocols used by each software
`modules, and the system used described in this invention are assumed to be the same
`as described in previous patents submission.
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`In the drawing, like elements are designated by like reference numbers. Further, when a
`list of identical elements is present, only one element will be given the reference number.
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`Brief Description of the Invention
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`Today the wireless users commonly face the problem of lack of storage capacity on their
`wireless devices such as cell phone or PDA, which usually limited to 256Nfl3 for PDA
`and much less for cell phone. To effectively solve this problem and let users own
`multiple GB of storage for their wireless devices as well as allow users to use GB storage
`for their multimedia application, the storage on a server can be used as external storage
`for wireless devices. This technology has been claimed in previous two patents
`submission by the same author. Now we can examine how does the external storage
`actually be used by the wireless device. We can let each server unit (3 of Fig. 2)
`partitions its storage system in such way that each volumes will have multi-GB in size.
`Therefore, each user from web-browser of any of wireless devices can exclusively be
`assigned and exclusively access a specific storage volume on a server unit. For example,
`if we need to provide each user 4GB of storage space, then a 160GB disk drive can
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`support 40 users. A 4096GB storage system on a server unit can support 1024 user.
`Further, any data on the wireless device can be transmitted to assigned storage volumes
`on a server unit. In addition, the user on the wireless device also can download the
`multimedia data from any ISP or ASP to the assigned storage volumes of a designated
`server unit through out-band approach (Fig. 3). Finally, the user can use their web-
`browser, which has functionality of invoking embedded video or music, to enjoy their
`stored multimedia contents.
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`These and other futures, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become
`understood with reference to the following description, appended claims, and
`accompanying figures where:
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`Description of the Drawings
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`Fig. 1: This figure demonstrates the network connection between a wireless device and a
`server, where
`a) Net (2) represent a communication link, which may combined with wireless
`and non-wireless connection media and guarantee the communication packet
`can be sent/received between wireless device and the server. It is also assume
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`that the net (2) infrastructure is built up in such way that the user from web-
`browser of a wireless device can access and browse any web-site on the
`Internet, Intranet.
`b) As described in previous patents submission, the console support sofiware (5)
`on server (3) can support web-based multi-task for users on web-browser (8)
`of wireless device (1). Further, the user on the web-browser (8) is able to
`perform creating structured layered files/directory or folders, and perform
`data management operations such as delete, move, copy, rename for data files
`or folders/directories etc on the assigned storage volume of server (3).
`c) As described in previous patents submission, the other software modules (9)
`of wireless device (1) is also capable to send data to or receive data from other
`service modules (7) of server (3) via communication link (2) through suitable
`IP or non-[P based protocol. The data file being sent cold be a digital photo
`picture, a message etc..
`d) As described in p