Synchronization of collaborative documents with an online document management system
US9971786B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 20, 2014 |
| Grant date | May 15, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 30, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/178
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Embodiments describe document synchronization between a client and an online document management system. In one embodiment, a computing device identifies a mapping between a local folder and a remote folder, identifies a local file in the local folder, and determines if a remote copy of the local file exists in the remote folder. When the remote copy does not exist, the computing device either uploads the local file to the remote folder or moves the local file to an archive folder on the computing depending on whether the local file was modified after a previous synchronization. When the remote copy does exist, the computing device either uploads the local file to the remote folder or skips the upload depending on whether the remote copy was modified after a previous synchronization, the local file was modified after the remote copy, and the local file and the remote copy have different file sizes.
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