Migration of data between computers
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsChristopher Ryan, John A. Vink, Jean-Pierre Ciudad
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Abstract
Techniques and mechanisms that allow configuration information, applications and/or data to be transferred between computer systems in an automated, or partially automated, manner, which may allow for more efficient transfer as compared to manual transfer. A source computer system may be coupled with a destination computer system directly via a wired or wireless communications channel. Data including, for example, user identification information, network settings, system settings, permissions and/or other data may be transferred from the source computer system to the destination computer system.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- searching a plurality of paths on a source electronic device for data and applications corresponding to a user, the source electronic device having at least user-specific system configuration data corresponding to the user and operation of the source electronic device;
- including the user-specific system configuration data found through the searching in a copy list;
- and
- transferring data corresponding to the copy list directly from the source electronic device to a destination electronic device.
An article comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:
- search a plurality of paths on a source electronic device for data and applications corresponding to a user, the source electronic device having at least user-specific system configuration data corresponding to the user and operation of the source electronic device;
- include the user-specific system configuration data found through the searching in a copy list;
- and
- transfer data corresponding to the copy list directly from the source electronic device to a destination electronic device.
A system comprising:
- a communications interface;
- and
- a memory device coupled with the communications interface having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors within the system coupled with the memory device to search a plurality of paths on a source electronic device for data and applications corresponding to a user, the source electronic device having at least user-specific system configuration data corresponding to the user and operation of the source electronic device, to include the user-specific system configuration data found through the searching in a copy list, and to transfer data corresponding to the copy list directly from the source electronic device to a destination electronic device.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for searching a plurality of paths on a source electronic device for data and applications corresponding to a user, the source electronic device having at least user-specific system configuration data corresponding to the user and operation of the source electronic device;
- means for including the user-specific system configuration data found through the searching in a copy list;
- and
- means for transferring data corresponding to the copy list directly from the source electronic device to a destination electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.