Global file index
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRoy Lee Troutman, Paul Boerger, Gregory Mark Hughes, Paul Michael Anderson
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Abstract
According to an example, to index computing device files, a global index update is received from a first registered device. The global index update from the first registered device is stored and propagated to a second registered device. In an example, an action associated with the global index update is determined. In an example, the action may be propagated to the second registered device. In another example, a remote server is crawled and the global index is updated.
Claims15
A method of indexing software files on a computing device, comprising:
- receiving, with a processor, a global file index update from a first registered device;
- storing, in a memory, the global file index update from the first registered device;
- propagating the global file index update received from the first registered device to a second registered device via a computer network;
- determining, with the processor, an action associated with the global file index update;
- and
- propagating the action to the second registered device.
A computing device comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory;
- and
- a network interface,
- wherein the memory comprises instructions executable by the processor to crawl a remote server and update a global file index of software files in the memory based on the remote server crawl;
- and
- wherein the network interface is to propagate the global file index update to a registered device and propagate a file associated with the global file index update in the event that the registered device is capable of processing the file associated with the global file index update.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions executable by a processor to:
- receive a global file index update from a remote device;
- update a local file index to include the global file index update;
- receive a push notification of an action associated with at least one update in the global file index;
- and
- execute the action associated with the at least one update in the global file index,
- wherein the global file index update includes metadata associated with a crawled file system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.