Ying W Su

US Patent:

20060123010, Jun 8, 2006

Filed:

Sep 15, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/229311

Inventors:

John Landry - Wayland MA, US
Phil Stanhope - Newbury MA, US
Scott Durgin - North Andover MA, US
Armando Neves - Boston MA, US
Igor Kuklin - Acton MA, US
Hossein Farkhondehpour - Waltham MA, US
Mikhail Tchekmarev - Arlington MA, US
Francis Tsai - Brookline MA, US
Ying Su - Wayland MA, US
Sabatino Gentile - Nashua NH, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707010000

Abstract:

Methods are provided for managing, sharing and providing access to data, especially among systems that are used to conduct a distributed application. Such methods may be beneficial, for example, in distributed networks having occasionally-connected devices. Methods are provided for linking and synchronizing data in a distributed network. In one example system, loosely-coupled systems may be used to implement such a network. Further, an abstraction layer may be used to abstract data elements (e.g., files, database elements) from those used by an application.