Patent ID: 8818938

Claim:
A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to cause a computer to implement a method comprising: performing a first synchronization of data between a first entity of a first system and a second entity of a second system, the second system being separate from the first system; wherein the first synchronization is performed by an application located at a location separate from the first entity and the second entity; wherein the performing the first synchronization includes: identifying data located at the first entity, sending the data to the second entity, and storing the data at the second entity; receiving, by the application, information indicating what data was synchronized during the first synchronization; performing, by the application, a second synchronization between the first entity and the second entity, utilizing the information associated with the first synchronization, wherein performing the second synchronization by the application includes the application creating a network connection between the first entity and the second entity by creating a first network connection from the application to the first entity and creating a second network connection from the application to the second entity; wherein the utilizing the information includes: identifying, utilizing the first network connection, an alteration made to the data at the first entity, sending the altered data to the second entity utilizing the second network connection, and storing, by the application, information associated with the second synchronization, wherein the information associated with the second synchronization indicates the altered data; wherein the information associated with the second synchronization is stored and subsequently used in performing a third synchronization.