Data synchronization transparent to application

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9037751-B2
Application number	US-201213683789-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2012
Priority date	Jun 12, 2007
Publication date	May 19, 2015
Grant date	May 19, 2015

Abstract

Synchronization of data accessible by an application program is performed transparent to the application program. After a data item is instantiated by the application program, the synchronization engine performs data synchronization without or with minimal intervention of the application program. The synchronization engine may be part of an operating system. The synchronization engine is preinstalled on a computing device; therefore, application program developers can simply define whether the data items associated with the application programs should be syncable, and if so, to what extent the data items should be syncable. The application program developer is relieved of the task of developing the synchronization engine or other software components associated with data synchronization.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of operating a computing device, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising:
operating an application that accesses a data item associated with the application;
using a lock table, modifying, in an attributes table, an entry from a first value to a second value to prevent the data item from being syncable, the entry corresponding to the data item in order;
determining that the application has finished accessing the data…

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Prasad Srikiran

Classifications

• G06F16/27 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30575 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic