Method and system for transmitting data for data synchronization between server and client when data synchronization session was abnormally terminated

• US 20050235019A1
• Filed: 12/08/2004
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yang, Eun-Hee
• Application Number:
  US11/007,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20050235019A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for transmitting data for data synchronization between a server and a client. If a data synchronization session in a network is abnormally terminated, the client stores state information of data to be transmitted, which indicates states of the data at the time of the abnormal termination. The state information of the data makes it possible to resume the data transmission beginning with data items that were being transmitted at the time of the abnormal termination. Since one of the server and the client transmits only data that has not been received by the other, it is possible to decrease the time necessary to complete the data synchronization and also to reduce a wasteful, unnecessary transaction when synchronization of a large amount of data is performed.

Claims

1. A method for resuming data for data synchronization between a server and a client when the synchronization is abnormally terminated, the method comprising the steps of:

if the data synchronization is abnormally terminated while the client is transmitting data to the server, terminating a data synchronization session by the client after storing, in the client, state information of the data indicating a state thereof at a time when the data synchronization is abnormally terminated;

notifying the server, by the client, of a resumed synchronization session when the client attempts to reperform the data synchronization after the data synchronization session was terminated;

resuming the transmission of data from the client, beginning with a data item that was being transmitted to the server at the time of the abnormal termination, by using the state information of the data; and

updating data previously stored in the server using the data received from the client.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

if the data synchronization is abnormally terminated while the server transmits a response message to the client in response to data received from the client, terminating a data synchronization session by the client after storing, in the client, state information of the data indicating a state thereof at a time when the data synchronization is abnormally terminated;

when the client attempts to reperform the data synchronization after the data synchronization session was terminated, notifying the server, by the client, of a resumed synchronization session, transmitting information related to synchronized data from the client to the server, and transmitting information related to synchronization data from the server to the client;

determining, by the client, data to be transmitted based on information of a data item, a response message to which the client has not received, and also based on said information of the synchronized data received from the server, said information of the data item and said information of the synchronized data being included in the state information of the data; and

resuming transmission of the data to the server, beginning with a data item that was being transmitted at the time of the abnormal termination, based on said determination of the data to be transmitted.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the state information of the data includes a sync log, a continue log and a change log.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the sync log represents the number of data items synchronized between the client and the server, and the sync log is defined in both the client and the server.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the continue log in one of the client and the server represents information of the ordinal number of a data item, which has been transmitted to the other, and a response message to which the one has not received from the other.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the change log represents server-modified data and client-modified data.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein the sync log in the client is reset if the change log in the client is cleared or if the number of data items in the change log in the client is equal to the number of data items included in server-modified data, whereas the sync log in the server is reset if the change log in the server is cleared or if the number of data items in the change log in the server is equal to the number of data items included in client-modified data,

wherein the ordinal number of a data item is removed from the continue log in one of the client and the server if the one receives a response message from the other in response to said data item transmitted to the other, and

wherein a data item is removed from the change log if a response message is received in response to transmission of said data item.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising the steps of:

transmitting information of the total number of data items to be transmitted, together with the client-modified data, from the client to the server when the client requests data synchronization;

calculating and storing the change log, continue log and sync log in the client when the client transmits part of the client-modified data to the server;

updating data stored in the server using the data received from the client, calculating and storing the sync log in the server, and transmitting a response message to the client in response to the data received from the client;

comparing, in the client, the sync log in the client with the sync log in the server based on an analysis of the response message received from the server, and determining data to be transmitted based on the comparison; and

transmitting the determined data from the client to the server.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the steps of:

transmitting the sync log in the client to the server and transmitting the sync log in the server to the client when the client attempts to reperform the data synchronization after the data synchronization was abnormally terminated when the data was being transmitted; and

determining, by the client, data to be subsequently transmitted based on the sync log received from the server and based on the sync log, change log and continue log previously stored in the client, and transmitting the data from the client to the server, beginning with a data item that was being transmitted at the time of the abnormal termination.

10. A system for resuming data synchronization between a server and a client when the data synchronization is abnormally terminated, the system comprising:

a client for terminating a data synchronization session after storing state information of the data if the data synchronization is abnormally terminated, said state information of the data indicating a state thereof at a time when the data synchronization is abnormally terminated, and notifying the server of a resumed synchronization session when the client attempts to reperform the data synchronization after said data synchronization session is terminated; and

the server transmitting and receiving information related to synchronized data to and from the client when the client attempts to reperform the data synchronization,

wherein the client determines data to be transmitted based on the state information of the data, and resumes transmitting the data to the server, beginning with a data item that was being transmitted at the time of the abnormal termination.