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Kendall D Keil

Paul J Leach

Mark H Lucovsky

Richard Bruce Ward

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Burra Gopal

Peter Sewall Ford

Lijiang Fang

Samuel John George

Jay Christopher Jacobs

Steven D White

Paul Andrew Steckler

Winnie C Wu

Jagadeesh Kalki

William Raymond Hoffman

Michael B Taylor

Ramu Movva

Suresh Kannan

Walter C Hsueh

David Benjamin Auerbach

Yun-Qi Yuan

Yi-Wen Guu

Philip Michael Smoot

Aaron Hartwell

Ronald Eric Gray

Stephen Thomas Wells

David A Raissipour

Brian L Trenbeath

A schema-based service for Internet access to per-user services data, wherein access to data is based on each user's identity. The service includes a schema that defines rules and a structure for each user's data, and also includes methods that provide access to the data in a defined way. The services schema thus corresponds to a logical document containing the data for each user. The user manipulates (e.g., reads or writes) data in the logical document by data access requests through defined methods. In one implementation, the services schemas are arranged as XML documents, and the services provide methods that control access to the data based on the requesting user's identification, defined role and scope for that role. In this way, data can be accessed by its owner, and shared to an extent determined by the owner.

Schema-based services for identity-based data access

A method and apparatus are provided for synchronizing records stored at a first computer with records stored at a second computer. If properties of the first record have been modified, a determination is made as to whether all of the modified properties may be ignored. If all of the properties are not ignorable, a determination is made as to whether the values of all non-ignorable properties are identical between the first and second records. If the values are identical, the modifications to the properties of the first record are discarded. If the values are not identical, a determination is made as to whether the modified properties are decidable. If the properties are decidable, a value is selected from either the value stored in the first record or the second record, and utilized as the selected value of the modified property for the first and second records.

Method and apparatus for record synchronization with conflict resolution

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Kendall D Keil