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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2008
Bryan T. Starbuck, Redmond, WA (US);
David R. Potter, Bothell, WA (US);
Bryan T. Starbuck, Redmond, WA (US);
David R. Potter, Bothell, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides for a distributed computing system that is capable of determining when data needs to be synced between two computer devices because data has changed on at least a remote device. More particularly, the present invention provides for a sync adapter that uses sync data to detect that a property on a device is new and needs to synchronize with corresponding data on another machine. The sync data is specific to the two devices in that the sync data mirrors data that was last synchronized between these two computing devices. Other example embodiments use the sync data to detect and mark data as low fidelity data for identifying any date and time information associated with the low fidelity data as potentially unreliable.