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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
May. 12, 2009
Alexander Joseph Pope, Seattle, WA (US);
Roberto Reif, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander Joseph Pope, Seattle, WA (US);
Roberto Reif, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Self-referencing fields are synchronized during a synchronization pass of a two-way synchronization between a client computer and a server computer. When a synchronization operation is performed, a list of server tasks associated with the server and a list of project tasks associated with the client are loaded. For each task being synchronized two predecessor lists are maintained. During the synchronization, a comparison is conducted to determine whether to use the project task data or the server task data. When the project task data is used, then the predecessor IDs stored in the project predecessor list are used. When the server task data is used, then the predecessor IDs stored in the server predecessor list are used.