Patent ID: 7299285

Claim:
A system for resource sharing and database synchronization, the system comprising: a plurality of application processes, each process having an assigned priority level and sharing a resource locking token, at least one process having a low priority level; an operating system that controls distribution of the resource locking token among the plurality of processes, the resource locking token being passed to a first process of the plurality of processes in response to the assigned priority level; a local database that is synchronizable with a master database; and a local controller capable of executing the plurality of application processes such that a low priority process receives the resource locking token, requests synchronization of the local database with the master database after receiving the resource locking token, returns the resource locking token to the operating system if synchronization is not complete, accesses the local database by the low priority process after synchronization is complete, accesses the resource by the low priority process in response to data from the local database, and returns the resource locking token to the operating system.