Patent ID: 6311205
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a client server computer network comprised of a central server, and a plurality of managed servers, and in which network full synchronization of managed server records is controlled by said central server, a method for synchronization of user records on managed servers with user records on said central server, including the steps of:sending a status update pulse from the central server to managed servers on the network;sending, in response to said pulse update record, a return request from a managed server to the central server for update records;sending, in response to said return request, from said central server to said managed server, an update record request or a request for full synchronization;defining at the managed server a set of user records locally on the managed server to be persistent accounts on this managed server;excluding at the managed server from potential changes on the managed server, as a result of a central server full synchronization request, those user records that have been defined as persistent accounts.