Unified mechanism for presenting and resolving grouped synchronization conflicts

US7805408B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Neil Leonard Padgett · Redmond, US
• Ashish Shah · Sammamish, US
• Edward Eric Thomas · Redmond, US
• Darshatkumar Shah · Bengaluru, IN
• Muhunthan Sivapragasam · Kirkland, US
• Lev Novik · Bellevue, US
• Lei Tang · Zhenjiang, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 9, 2006
• Grant date: Sep 28, 2010
• Expiry date: Mar 30, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/178
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Conflicts detected during synchronization of replicas are enumerated and resolved according to a specified policy, comprising conditions and actions or simply a specified action. Specified actions may be drawn from a set of standard actions and custom actions may also be composed. The conflicts are enumerated and resolved in logical groups. A logical group is a collection of one or more item envelopes, each comprising entities, such as items, links, and/or extensions. In an example configuration, both constraint-based conflicts, such as a name collision, and non-constraint-based conflicts are handled via the same application programming interface.