Synchronizing structured web site contents

• US 20070271309A1
• Filed: 05/22/2006
• Published: 11/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ferreira, Jorge, Witriol, Daniel B.
• Granted Patent: US 7,792,792 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

Techniques to synchronize structured web site content are described. An apparatus may include a server having a server synchronization module to identify structured content types shared by the server and a client, and synchronize structured content corresponding to the structured content types. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. An article comprising a machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to identify structured content types shared by a server and a client, and synchronize structured content corresponding to said structured content types.

2. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to receive a request for a server content list, send said server content list with structured content values representing structured content types supported by said server, and receive a synchronization request to synchronize structured content types supported by said server and said client.

3. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to receive a client content list with structured content values representing structured content types supported by said client, retrieve a server content list with structured content values representing structured content types supported by said server, compare said server content list with said client content list, send a shared content list with structured content values representing structured content types supported by said client and said server, and receive a synchronization request to synchronize structured content types in accordance with said shared content list.

4. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to generate different hyperlinks to send said synchronization request for different structured content types.

5. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to determine an amount of structured content to synchronize, set synchronization parameters based on said amount, and send synchronization information to said client in accordance with said synchronization parameters.

6. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to send said synchronization request from a web browser using a protocol handler.

7. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to receive said synchronization request with said structured content type, determine whether structured content indicated by said structured content type has been modified using a change log, and send synchronization information to said client based on said determination.

8. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to determine whether multiple versions of structured content have been independently modified using a version history.

9. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to detect data schema conflicts using a property bag.

10. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to detect language conflicts using field value mapping.

11. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to generate a synchronization interval parameter, send said synchronization interval parameter to said client, and receive synchronization requests from said client in accordance with said synchronization interval parameter.

12. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to generate a synchronization interval parameter for a client based on historical content change data stored by said server or previous synchronization results from previous synchronization requests, and send said synchronization interval parameter to said client.

13. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to synchronize said structured content types using paging operations.

14. The article of claim 1, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to generate a first network address to send said synchronization request with at least one structured content type from an internal private network, and a second network address to send said synchronization request with at least one structured content type from an external public network.

16. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving a request for a server content list;

sending said server content list with structured content values representing structured content types supported by said server; and

receiving a synchronization request to synchronize structured content types supported by said server and said client.

17. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving a client content list with structured content values representing structured content types supported by said client;

retrieving a server content list with structured content values representing structured content types supported by said server;

comparing said server content list with said client content list;

sending a shared content list with structured content values representing structured content types supported by said client and said server; and

receiving a synchronization request to synchronize structured content types in accordance with said shared content list.

15. A method, comprising:

identifying structured content types shared by a server and a client; and

synchronizing structured content corresponding to said structured content types.

18. An apparatus comprising a server having a server synchronization module to identify structured content types shared by said server and a client, and synchronize structured content corresponding to said structured content types.

19. The apparatus of claim 19, comprising said client having a client synchronization module to send a synchronization request to synchronize structured content types supported by said server and said client.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, said server synchronization module to receive a client content list with client structured content types, compare said client structured content types to server structured content types, send a shared content list with matching structured content types, and receive a synchronization request to synchronize structured content types in accordance with said shared content list.