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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2001
Robert N. Goldberg, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Yury Kamen, Foster City, CA (US);
Bruce K. Daniels, Capitola, CA (US);
Peter A. Yared, San Francisco, CA (US);
Syed M. Ali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A cache synchronization method and apparatus for a distributed application having a client side, a server side, and an object located on either the client side or the server side are disclosed. The cache synchronization method may include detecting initiation of a transition to a new state on the client side, locating data on the client side that is to be synchronized, synchronizing located data using a cache synchronizer interposed between the client side and the server side, and completing the transition to the new state on the client side. The cache synchronizer may include a client side application usage specification (AUS) manager and a server side AUS manager. The cache synchronization method may also include synchronizing data in the object by passing to a database changes made locally to the object and allowing the distributed application to transition to a new state when synchronization is complete.