Client Server Data Sync Prioritization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing client-server synchronization methods are inefficient and inconvenient, particularly when the client and server are out of communication, leading to lengthy 'priming the cache' processes and incomplete data availability on the client device.
Innovation Solution
A method where the server identifies unsynchronized data and change operations, prioritizing them based on relevance and chronology, and transmits them to the client in parallel mechanisms, allowing immediate access to high-priority data even during offline use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If data is downloaded chronologically from oldest to newest, then synchronization completeness is improved, but user accessibility to relevant data is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the synchronization process into two independent parallel mechanisms: one for downloading data chronologically (oldest to newest) to ensure completeness, and another for prioritizing and making relevant data immediately accessible to users. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by allowing both synchronization completeness and user accessibility to be achieved simultaneously through different pathways.
2Stability of the object's composition
If complete priming of client cache is required before operation, then data consistency is improved, but operational readiness is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-identifying and prioritizing relevant data that should be made immediately accessible to users, while simultaneously initiating the complete synchronization process in the background. This allows the client to become operationally ready with key data available immediately, while complete data consistency is established subsequently through the ongoing synchronization process.
3Quantity of substance
If large amounts of data are synchronized after communication outage, then data completeness is improved, but synchronization duration is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuity of useful action by running the synchronization process continuously in the background without requiring the client application to remain open or the user to wait. The system continuously downloads and processes data, making large volumes of data synchronized over time while the user can immediately access prioritized relevant data, thus reducing the perceived synchronization duration while maintaining data completeness.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for data synchronization are described. In some embodiments, a method is devised for a client to synchronize information with a server. This client receives a communication from a server to selectively synchronize information between the server and the client, the information includes data that have never been synchronized with the client and change operations that have not been synchronized in last data synchronization, wherein the data is arranged and received in an order from higher priority to lower priority. The client stores at least a portion of the data and at least a portion of the change operations in memory of the client in accordance to order received and enables a user of the client device to have immediate access to the portion of data and the portion of change operations in the communication that are stored on the client at any termination point of information synchronization.