Apple Inc.

Intellisync Corporation

John S Baumgarten

Christopher Brooke Sharp

Philippe Richard Kahn

Pavel V Dudrenov

Nicholas K Puz

Leo Lee

Sethuraman Suresh

Sugam Jain

Marin Eubanks

Jennifer U Song

Saman Vafaee

Thomas L Byrne

This application relates to a client-server architecture that enables progress tracking related to assignments generated by an instructor. A hand-out can include attachments that specify placeholders for hand-ins and/or activities to be performed by the student as part of the assignment. Some activities can be performed using third-party applications that implement at least a portion of a software framework that causes the applications to generate progress tracking information provided to a daemon executing in the background of a client device. The daemon and/or a client application interface with one or more network services to enable an instructor to utilize the progress tracking information. The network services can include a hand-out service utilized to generate hand-outs assigned to a group of students. The network services can also include a progress pipeline including a number of services configured to process progress tracking information received from a plurality of client devices.

Software framework for progress tracking in a classroom setting

A system includes storage devices for storing content along with two or more computing devices such as two or more servers. One of the computing devices includes a staging memory that stores content that is received from the storage devices. The computing device also includes a user memory that is assigned to a user and stores content transferred from the staging memory. The user memory is accessible by the user while the staging memory is inaccessible by the user. The system also includes another computing device that has a content manager that initiates transferring of content from the storage devices to the staging memory and transferring content from the staging memory to the user memory for electronic publication of the content.

Staging electronic publications

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for efficiently storing application data received from clients in a database stored on a server, such as a cloud-based database. The methods include receiving a batch of a plurality of web operations that specify actions to be performed on data objects that represent application data stored in a cloud database, translating the web operations to a batch of data storage operation sets, creating a temporary database having a subset of contents of the cloud database, applying the data storage operation sets to the temporary database, recording database operations generated by the temporary database based on the plurality of data storage operation sets, and applying the plurality of database operations to the cloud database in a transaction. Translating the web operations can include mapping the actions to be performed on the data objects to transactions to be performed on the cloud database.

Batch processing and data synchronization in cloud-based systems

A system includes storage devices for storing content along with two or more computing devices such as a two or more servers. One of the computing devices includes a staging memory that stores content that is received from the storage devices. The computing device also includes a user memory that is assigned to a user and stores content transferred from the staging memory. The user memory is accessible by the user while the staging memory is inaccessible by the user. The system also includes another computing device that has a content manager that initiates transferring of content from the storage devices to the staging memory and transferring content from the staging memory to the user memory for electronic publication of the content.

A synchronization system may include: A Source (outbound). An 'Accessor' communicating with a device's data store. A corresponding Target Accessor is provided for inbound data. Both Accessors work in conjunction with a 'Conduit,' which is provided for understanding the data that is being read so that the data can be mapped to a universal schema or &#x201c;unirecord&#x201d; or to a target dataset. The Conduit serves to broker the services of the Source Accessor and the Target Accessor and to provide field mapping and conversion. Core synchronization functionality is provided by a Synchronizer or &#x201c;Sync Core&#x201d; (engine). The Synchronizer performs its specific functionality on a per record or per data item basis, such as determining which records need to be inserted, deleted, updated, or the like.

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John S Baumgarten