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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2000
Felix W. Wong, Bellevue, WA (US);
Srinivasan Chandrasekar, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Directory synchronization is disclosed. A synchronization logic synchronizes a first directory and a second directory. The logic has one or more synchronization capabilities: a dampening capability, an identifier mapping capability, and a checksum capability. The dampening capability prevents changes that originate from the second directory that have already been synchronized to the first directory from being synchronized back to the second directory. The identifier mapping capability uses a table that maps a unique identifier of each record of the first directory with a unique identifier of a corresponding record of the second directory. Records that are moved within a directory can then be located. The checksum capability uses a checksum for each record in one of the directories, to efficiently detect changes.