Frank Stewart Barr

US Patent:

20040133629, Jul 8, 2004

Filed:

Jan 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/470880

Inventors:

Brian Reynolds - Hopewell, JM
Frank Barr - Smyrna GA, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16
G06F015/173

US Classification:

709/202000, 709/224000, 709/236000

Abstract:

PC ROBOT methods, systems and devices are disclosed, one embodiment (MySharer) of which provides automated web publishing functions. One aspect includes the steps of designating, on a local processing system, at least one file or directory containing at least one file for copying to a remote server via a network; detecting whether changes have been written to the designated files or directories; and if changes have been written to the designated files or directories, copying, to a remote processor, via the network, information representative of the at least one changed file or the changes thereto. The invention provides users of the world wide web with tools to publish, distribute, archive from server to server or within a single processor and be connected with a group of users with similar shareable work, such that every user will have the capability to access the most current version of a data object in the form of digital data or multimedia, which may include a data file, or a directory, thereby providing PC to Web Publishing or Caching using an IBOOK server, or an FTP server.