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Coordinating file synchronization between a sync engine and another application that supports document collaboration

  • US 10,282,255 B2
  • Filed: 03/04/2016
  • Issued: 05/07/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computing system, comprising:

  • file synchronization logic that synchronizes changes to a file that has a corresponding cloud file stored on a cloud based storage system and a corresponding local file stored on a local file system;

    backoff processing logic that receives a backoff indicator corresponding to the file and determines, based on the backoff indicator, whether the file synchronization logic is to synchronize the changes to the file or to backoff and allow the changes to be synchronized by a co-authoring application andmetadata computing logic that maintains a first set of collaborative metadata indicative of content and a version of the cloud file and a second set of collaborative metadata indicative of content and a version of the local file.

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