Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-05
2005-07-05
Alam, Shahid (Department: 2162)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C707S793000, C709S220000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06915312
ABSTRACT:
A synchronization system providing multi-client synchronization is described. By storing the data that is actually being synchronized (i.e., storing the actual physical body of a memo, for instance) inside an extra database, “Grand Unification Database” (GUD), (or by specially-designated client data set) under control of a central or core synchronization engine, rather than transferring such data on a point-to-point basis, the system of the present invention provides a repository of information that is available at all times and does not require that any other synchronization client (e.g., PIM client or hand-held device) be connected. The GUD provides a super-set of the other client data sets. Therefore, if the user now includes an additional client, such as a server computer storing user information, the synchronization system has all the information necessary for synchronizing the new client, regardless of whether any of the other clients are currently available. The system can, therefore, correctly propagate information to any appropriate client without having to “go back” to (i.e., connect to) the original client from which that data originated.
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Bodnar Eric O.
Dube Bryan
Kirani Shekhar
LaRue Chris
Suresh Sethuraman
Alam Shahid
Beffel, Jr. Ernest J.
Fleurantin Jean Bolte
Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP
Starfish Software, Inc.
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