Patent ID: 7836264

Claim:
A method of replicating data stored on a mobile telephone by copying that data to a first computing device, in which the data is stored on the first computing device and made available to other devices by the first computing device, in which the first computing device determines whether data that is time stamped by a second computing device, which is the mobile telephone, using a clock running on the second device, is to be replicated or not comprising the steps of: (a) the first computing device comparing the time stamp from the second computing device against a time signal from its own local clock to determine a delta and using that delta to deduce the correct delta to apply to time stamps associated with later data from the second computing device; and (b) the first computing device taking sole responsibility for determining whether or not that later data from the second computing device is to be stored on the first computing device and made available to other devices by the first computing device.