Patent attributes
A terminal device uploads data to a storage device. The terminal device includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that cause the device to determine whether data to be uploaded is a file or a partial dataset being used by an application, determine whether one or more data objects created in a given format is included in the data to be uploaded determined to be the partial dataset, generate image data and a shared byte string from the data to be uploaded if the data objects created in the given format are included in the data to be uploaded, send the data to be uploaded to the storage device as shared data if the data to be uploaded is the file, and send the image data and the shared byte string to the storage device as the shared data if the data to be uploaded is the partial dataset.
