Patent ID: 8176152

Claim:
A system configured for optimizing a slow synchronization between a client and a server, the system comprising: means for receiving, at the server, a synchronization package having missing or corrupt synchronization anchors; means for sending, by the server, a request to the client to initiate a slow synchronization process; means for receiving a slow synchronization package at the server, wherein the slow synchronization package comprises summary data associated with documents stored at the client; means for determining, by the server, if the slow synchronization package was received from a client designated proprietary by examining a header field of the slow synchronization package, the proprietary client departing from the slow synchronization process by sending the slow synchronization package comprising the summary data associated with documents stored at the client rather than sending the documents themselves; and means for processing, by the server, the received summary data associated with the documents stored at the client, responsive to the client being designated proprietary, wherein the means for processing the received summary data further comprises: means for comparing a unique identifier and a timestamp, obtained from the summary data, for each document stored at the client with a unique identifier and timestamp for each document stored at the server; means for determining if the unique identifiers and the timestamps match for the client document and server document; and means for sending a status to the client indicating a document that needs to be sent by the client, if the unique identifiers do not match.