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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jack Allen Nichols, Bothell, WA (US);
Benjamin M. Yim, Redmond, WA (US);
Adam Christopher Czeisler, Seattle, WA (US);
Amnon I. Govrin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michal Krzysztof Piaseczny, Bellevue, WA (US);
Marcus Eduardo Markiewicz, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Daniel Vincent Fiordalis, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Alexander Bockelman, Kirkland, WA (US);
Marcelo Albuquerque Fernandes Mas, Redmond, WA (US);
Chris J. Guzak, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael J. Novak, Redmond, WA (US);
Juan-Lee Pang, Redmond, WA (US);
Tyler Kien Beam, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A synchronization engine detects a notification of a change to a file. It determines whether an application associated with the file has indicated that the file is to be synchronized by the application. If so, the changes to the file are synchronized between a cloud-based storage system and a local disk by the application. Collaborative metadata, associated with the synchronized file, is updated to indicate a state of a copy of the file on the local disk and a copy of the file in the cloud-based storage system. The collaborative metadata is stored by the synchronization engine.