個人化儲存服務系統平台之設計與實作

Abstract

本論文設計並實作一套整合性個人檔案平台以整合個人在網路儲存媒體所擁有的儲存空間，使用者可透過此平台所提供之單一介面，存取不同儲存空間以及本地端硬碟的資料，而且存取不同儲存空間時，使用者不會察覺到儲存媒體或使用方式的不同，此外，也可藉由此平台與他人分享在不同儲存空間的檔案，分享時也不會有認證或是存取上的困擾。此平台讓使用者更能充分運用與發揮網路儲存空間所帶來的便利。

受惠於網路儲存媒體所提供免費且大量的儲存空間，使用者可擺脫時間與地點的束縛，透過網路存取上述儲存空間。善用這些儲存空間亦可有效地幫助使用者備份與分享檔案。然而不同網路儲存媒體間不僅存在有相容性問題，亦無法與使用者原有的儲存設備整合，在分享檔案時也因相容性問題使得分享功能倍受限制。因此在享受網路儲存服務所帶來的便利時，使用者也必須忍受使用上所產生的問題。

本論文針對上述問題提出整合性個人檔案平台，使用者可透過本平台利用單一操作方式存取各式儲存服務與儲存空間，除了延續使用者操作經驗，也達到管理眾多不種儲存媒體的目的。此外本平台亦提供使用者利用互相信賴之分享機制，透過較直覺的方式分享檔案給朋友而不需要額外的服務帳號或認證。最後本平台延伸瀏覽器的環境至使用者桌面使檔案存取不再限制於瀏覽器中，而能持續與使用者保持互動。

In this thesis, we present the design and implementation of a Unified Personal Storage Platform that can integrate the storage spaces a user acquired from various network storage services. Under this platform, users can access various network or local storages via a single access interface and will not be aware of the differences of underlying storage services. Furthermore, users can also share their resources in this platform without suffering from authentication or sharing policy issues. In a word, the “Unified File Platform” can help users to manage their own storage spaces across Internet and share information with others very conveniently without detail. Because of the free and huge spaces provides by many emerging network storage service providers, users can access their photos, videos or other resources any time and any where. Furthermore, users can also use these storage spaces to backup or share files. However it is inconvenience for user to manage many storage spaces across various network storage service systems with different authentication or access mechanisms. Furthermore, different network storage service providers may adopt different sharing policies. In order to resolve above issues, the UPS platform provides a unified GUI for users to manage and access different storage services across Internet. The unified GUI inherits the concept of common file access interfaces and all storages appear as files in UPS. Furthermore, UPS also provides a sharing mechanism with trusted relationship. With this mechanism, user can share or access file without tedious account creation and authentication procedures. Last but not least, UPS client can run on desktop so that it can notify users the changes in file sharing.