Patent ID: 7475078

Claim:
A computer implemented method for transferring media data from a portable device to a client computer during a synchronization process, said portable device storing media data associated with a plurality of media files, said method comprising: identifying one or more of the plurality of media files on the portable device having media data that has been modified since a last synchronization process, wherein at least one of the identified media files has media data that has been modified since a last synchronization process and media data that has been unmodified since said last synchronization process; identifying the media data of the modified media files that has been modified since the last synchronization process; retrieving the identified media data for each identified media file, wherein only the media data that has been modified since the last synchronization process is retrieved for the at least one media file having the modified media data and the unmodified media data; and storing the retrieved media data from the portable device on the client computer.