SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOL FOR LOOSELY COUPLED DEVICES

A transport agnostic synchronization protocol is provided for use in the context of loosely coupled clients. The synchronization protocol enables a stateless server freeing the server from maintaining synchronization state of ever scaling clients. A discoverability service is provided for clients to...

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Main Authors LASKER STEVEN M, ROBEAL RAFIK, CHITRE SUDARSHAN A
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 03.07.2008
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A transport agnostic synchronization protocol is provided for use in the context of loosely coupled clients. The synchronization protocol enables a stateless server freeing the server from maintaining synchronization state of ever scaling clients. A discoverability service is provided for clients to learn about different synchronization services for groups of data that the server provides such that the clients can choose or subscribe to synchronization groups of interest, and the protocol initializes the client with any schema of any data structures to which it subscribed that are unknown. Further, the protocol enables an extensible synchronization anchor model that carries an anchor type between client and server without requiring assumptions about client data structures allowing a wide spectrum of anchor data types and functionality.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20070619262