Methods for synchronizing on-line and off-line transcript projects

• US 20030055828A1
• Filed: 03/29/2002
• Published: 03/20/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: West Services
• Original Assignee: West Services
• Inventors: Berglund, Peter, Koch, Kevin S., Fifield, Davin J.
• Application Number:
  US10/112,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20030055828A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A method for synchronizing off-line and on-line transcript projects which may contain electronic transcripts and user-created annotations or notations which are electronically associated with the respective electronic transcripts. The method includes providing a database containing one or more electronic transcript files and having one or more sets of annotations associated with the one or more electronic transcript files, the database being accessible over a network. An off-line database is created in a user device, the off-line database containing a copy of at least one of the electronic transcript files and a copy of at least one set of the annotations. In the user device, a user may manipulate the copy of at least one set of the annotations, while the user device is not connected to the network, to form an off-line version of the annotations. When the user device is connected to the network, it is determined whether the off-line version of the annotations contains a change from the one or more sets of annotations in the database, and if so, writing the change to the database. Further, it may be determined whether the one or more sets of annotations in the database contain a change from the off-line version of the annotations, and if so, writing the change to the off-line database.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing a database containing one or more electronic transcript files and having one or more sets of annotations associated with the one or more electronic transcript files, said database being accessible over a network;

creating an off-line database in a user device, said off-line database containing a copy of at least one of said electronic transcript files and a copy of at least one set of said annotations;

in the user device while said user device is not connected to said network, providing for manipulation of the copy of at least one set of said annotations to form an off-line version of said annotations;

detecting when said user device is connected to said network; and

responsive to said detecting step, determining if said off-line version of said annotations contains a change from said one or more sets of annotations in said database, and if so, writing said change to said database.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to said detecting step, determining if said one or more sets of annotations in said database contain a change from said off-line version of said annotations, and if so, writing said change to said off-line database.