Presenting availability statuses of synchronized objects
US9560130B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 30, 2010 |
| Grant date | Jan 31, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 17, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M1/72406
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The objects of an on object set may be synchronized across many clients (e.g., various devices may synchronize files of a mirrored filesystem). However, the synchronization of an object may be complicated, and an object may not yet be synchronized in the object set of a client for many reasons, such as an incomplete reception of the object, an unavailability of the object from currently reachable hosts, and a versioning conflict with a different version of the same object in the object set. In order to inform a user of the availability of an object in the object set, an analysis of the availability status of the object may be performed (e.g., by tracking metadata stored in object descriptors of respective objects of the object set, and later examining the metadata of respective objects), and a selected availability status may be presented to the user.
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