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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2003
Cameron T. Ring, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Joseph B. Shear, Mountain View, CA (US);
John T. Masonis, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan A. King, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard J. Carey, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cameron T. Ring, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Joseph B. Shear, Mountain View, CA (US);
John T. Masonis, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan A. King, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard J. Carey, Los Altos, CA (US);
Plaxo, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and a method are disclosed for synchronizing folders between one or more layers of folders. It includes selecting layers to link together, comparing folders in the selected layers using an immutable identifier, parsing the folders of each of the selected layers into fields, comparing the fields of parsed folders of the selected layers, and determining whether to synchronize the folders of the selected layers based on conflict rules triggered in response to the comparison of the fields of the parsed folders. Also disclosed is a system and method of merging two or more folders in a network into a single folder. It includes comparing entries between folders to identify duplicate entries, grouping the identified duplicate entries in each folder, generating a matrix from the duplicates grouping and assigning each matrix entry a value, and matching the matrix entries based on the assigned values to determine an extent to merge an identified duplicate entry.