Method and system for data synchronization

• US 8,498,963 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2011
• Issued: 07/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Shi Ran, Nan, Fang Bj, Wang, Fei Peng, Zhang, Yu Yy
• Primary Examiner(s): PYO, MONICA M
• Application Number:
  US13/014,550
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191292A1
• Time in Patent Office: 916 Days
• Field of Search: 707/610, 707620-622
• US Class Current: 707/622
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• 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

A method, system and computer program product for performing data synchronization by a terminal device, including receiving compatibility information between different versions of data schemas; performing compatibility verification on data by utilizing the received compatibility information between different versions of data schemas; and sending data that successfully passes through compatibility verification.

Claims

1. A method for performing data synchronization by a terminal device, including:

reception by the terminal device of compatibility information between different versions of data schemas including a current version of data schema and multiple previous versions of the current version of data schema;

reception by the terminal device of current data with the current version of data schema;

performing compatibility verification on the current version of data schema by comparing compatibility information between the current version of data schema and the multiple previous versions of the current version of data schema;

performing compatibility verification of the data in the current version of data schema and the data in the multiple previous versions of the current version of data schema subsequent to the performing compatibility verification on the current version of data schema; and

using the terminal device to send data that successfully passes through the compatibility verification of the data in the current version of data schema to a synchronization server; and

in response to incompatibility of the current data with the multiple previous versions of the current version of data schema,

selecting a previous version of data that is compatible with the multiple previous versions of the current version of data schema; and

modifying the current data to be similar to a selected previous version of data that is compatible with the multiple previous versions of the current version of data schema.

2. The method according to claim 1, further, including:

receiving data sent by the terminal device that includes at least version information of the current version of data schema while the terminal device processes a data record.

3. The method according to claim 1, further including:

comparing version information of the current version of data schema with data schema of a synchronization server to determine whether they are compatible.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the compatibility verification is performed on the data by the terminal device utilizing the received compatibility information between different versions of data schemas.

5. The method according to claim 1, further including:

performing processing on data that does not successfully pass through compatibility verification.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the compatibility information between different versions of data schemas includes at least compatibility information between the current version of data schema and one of the multiple previous versions of the current version of data schema in a synchronization server.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the data is XML data; and

the data schema is XML data schema.

8. A non-transitory computer storage medium having a computer program product for data synchronization, the computer program product comprising computer readable program code configured to:

receive compatibility information between multiple previous versions of data schemas;

perform compatibility verification on the multiple previous versions of data schemas by utilizing received compatibility information between the multiple previous versions of data schemas;

perform compatibility verification on first data in the multiple previous versions of data schemas subsequent to performing verification on the multiple previous versions of data schemas by utilizing received compatibility information between the multiple previous versions of data schemas;

use the terminal device to send data that successfully passes through the compatibility verification to a synchronization server; and

in response to incompatibility of current data with the multiple previous versions of data schemas,

select a different previous version of the first data that is compatible with the multiple previous versions of data schemas, and

modify the current data to be similar to the selected different previous version of the first data that is compatible with the multiple previous versions of data schemas.

9. The computer program product according to claim 8, further including:

computer readable program code configured to receive data sent by the terminal device that includes at least corresponding data schema version information while the terminal device processes a data record.

10. The computer program product according to claim 8, further including:

computer readable program code configured to compare data schema version information for one of the multiple previous versions of data schemas with data schema of a synchronization server to determine whether they are compatible.

11. The computer program product according to claim 8, further including:

computer readable program code configured to perform processing on data that does not successfully pass through compatibility verification.

12. The computer program product according to claim 8, wherein:

the compatibility verification is performed on the data by the terminal device utilizing the received compatibility information between multiple previous versions of data schemas.

13. The computer program product according to claim 8, wherein:

the compatibility information between multiple previous versions of data schemas includes at least compatibility information between a current version of a data schema and a previous version of a data schema in a synchronization server.

14. The computer program product according to claim 8, wherein:

the data is XML data; and

the data schema is XML data schema.

15. An apparatus for performing data synchronization by a terminal device, including:

a receiving unit configured to receive compatibility information between different versions of data schemas;

a verifying unit configured to perform compatibility verification on multiple versions of the data schemas including multiple previous versions of the data schemas by utilizing received compatibility information between different versions of the data schemas; and

a sending unit configured to use the terminal device to send data that successfully passes through compatibility verification to a synchronization server,

wherein the verifying unit is configured to;

perform compatibility verification on data in the multiple versions of the data schemas subsequent to performing compatibility verification on the multiple versions of the data schemas;

in response to incompatibility of current data with the previous versions of data schemas,

select a different version of data that is compatible with the previous versions of data schemas; and

modify the current data to be similar to the selected different version of data that is compatible with the previous versions of the data schemas.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, further including:

a recording unit configured to record data schema version information in data.

17. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the receiving unit:

receives data sent by a terminal device that includes at least corresponding data schema version information while the terminal device processes a data record.

18. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the verifying unit:

compares corresponding data schema version information with data schema of a synchronization server to determine whether they are compatible.

19. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the verifying unit:

performs processing on data that does not successfully pass through compatibility verification.