Patent ID: 7130851
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for updating an order of list items of a source list stored in a source location according to a local list, the local list being a local copy of the source list, the method comprising: obtaining the local list at a local computer from the source location over a communication network; identifying those list items in the local list that were moved within the local list, wherein each list item includes an order value upon which the order of the list items in the source list is determined; for each identified list item: resetting the order values of each list item in the local list and storing the reset order values to the source list if a precision error is detected; and setting the identified list item's order value to the result of the division and storing the identified list item's order value to the source list if a precision error is not detected; and transmitting the order values of those list items whose order values have changed over the communication network to the source location.