Patent ID: 7660809
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for sharing data among multiple users working on the same project, each user accessing the data via a client device, comprising: providing a storage device containing at least one project folder, wherein the storage device is accessible via a first client device and a second client device; exporting data items stored on the first client device in a first application format from the first client device to a project folder in the storage device, wherein a first user generated the data items being exported; converting each data item in the first application format exported to the project folder in the storage device to a standard format file containing the data item, each standard format file having a file name based on a unique identifier associated with the data item, said converting includes storing each data item in a separate file in the project folder in said storage device; downloading a local copy of said standard format files onto the second client device, wherein the local copy of said standard format files downloaded onto the second client device are converted back into the data items in the first application format so that a second user working on said second client device can modify the data items; modifying at least one data item of the local copy of said data items downloaded onto the second client device; and synchronizing said local copy of said data items in said first application format on said second client device with said standard format files stored in the project folder on said storage device to ensure that any data items modified by said second user in said local copy of said data items maintained on the second client device are also modified in the storage device, the step of synchronizing including: