Patent ID: 7778282

Claim:
In a sync community that includes a plurality of synchronization endpoints, a method for propagation of conflict knowledge, the method comprising: receiving, at a first synchronization endpoint, knowledge information of a second synchronization endpoint, the knowledge information representing changes to data within the sync community of which the second synchronization endpoint is aware; comparing the knowledge information from the second synchronization endpoint with knowledge information of the first synchronization endpoint, the knowledge information of the first synchronization endpoint representing changes to data within the sync community of which the first synchronization endpoint is aware; enumerating, at the first synchronization endpoint, change information based on the comparing of the knowledge information from the second synchronization endpoint with the knowledge information of the first synchronization endpoint, the change information including data indicative of an unresolved synchronization data conflict between a third synchronization endpoint and another synchronization endpoint of the plurality of synchronization endpoints; and sending, from the first synchronization endpoint to the second synchronization endpoint, the change information.