US 2014/0279901 A1 · Mobile Data Synchronization

Abstract

Disclosed are methods and structures that facilitate the synchronization of mobile devices and apps with cloud storage systems. Our disclosure, Simba, provides a unified synchronization mechanism for object and table data in the context of mobile clients. Advantageously, Simba provides application developers a single, API where object data is logically embedded with the table data. On the mobile device, Simba uses a specialized data layout to efficiently store both table data and object data. SQL-like queries are used to store and retrieve all data via a table abstraction. Simba also provides efficient synchronization by splitting object data into chunks which can be synchronized independently. Therefore, if only a small part of an object changes, the full object need not be synced. Advantageously only the changed chunks need be synched.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented system, comprising:

an application program interface (API) including:
a write component configured to receive requests to store data from one or more applications executing on said system, said data to be stored having both structured (Table) and unstructured (Object) data, said data stored in a single unified data store;
a read component configured to receive requests to retrieve data from one or more applications executing on said system, said data to be retrieved having both structured and unstructured data, said data stored in the single unified data store;
and
a processor and a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to implement at least one of the write component, the read component.

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Mobile Data Synchronization

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