Patent ID: 7930346

Claim:
A method for creating a sync relationship in a secure peer-to-peer data synchronization community comprising: receiving user input at a first computing device that specifies that a first folder on the first computing device is to be synchronized with a second folder on a second computing device; in response to the input, the first computing device creating an invitation that includes information for creating a sync relationship between the first and second folders, the information including a membership list that defines access rights to the first folder for each user in the synchronization community, such that the membership list includes at least one other user of another computing device in the synchronization community in addition to a user of the second computing device as well as the access rights for the at least one other user and the user of the second computing device for accessing the first folder; and sending the invitation from the first computing device to the second computing device such that upon the second computing device executing the invitation, the sync relationship is established between the first and second folders such that the second folder stores the membership list including the access rights for the user of the second computing device as well as the access rights of the at least one other user for accessing the first folder.