Patent ID: 7761419
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of replicating protected data, the method comprising: obtaining a local version of a manifest for a set of protected data items, the manifest including an identifier for each protected data item and a corresponding update identifier associated with a version of the protected data item and further including a plurality of client identifiers and a corresponding replication identifier for each of the plurality of client identifiers, wherein each client identifier identifies a unique computing device on which the manifest is replicated and wherein the replication identifier is associated with a last replication of the manifest on the corresponding computing device; obtaining a server version of the manifest from a server; and replicating, on at least one computing device, the set of protected data items using the local version of the manifest and the server version of the manifest, the replicating including comparing the replication identifiers for each of the plurality of client identifiers in the local version and server version of the manifest to verify a validity of the server version of the manifest.