Patent Document ID: 9235631
Application ID: 12773787

Base Claim:
1. A method for simulating an online session while offline, comprising: establishing, at a server, a connection over a network to a client, the connection allowing the client, when online, to communicate with the server; in response to an initiation of an offline session by the client device, receiving at the server from the client device, via the connection, a message including a request; in response to receiving the message from the client: invoking functional logic residing at the server through a server API solution and an Extensible Markup Language remote procedure call (XML-RPC) to manipulate data in a database of the server; identifying criteria defined by a user of the client for conducting an offline session; selecting from the database a user-specified portion of the data, utilizing the criteria defined by the user of the client; importing to the client from the server both the selected user-specified portion of the data from the database, and a portion of functional logic residing at the server used to manipulate the data in the database of the server; terminating the connection between the client and the server in response to the client being offline; after the terminating of the connection, enabling the user to modify the user-specified portion of the data imported to the client from the server using the portion of the functional logic imported to the client from the server; receiving another connection at the server by the client via a network when the client returns online; and performing by the server a synchronization process with the client via the other connection by uploading the modified data from the client to the database of the server.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data in a database of the server is data of the user, and wherein the user-specified portion of the data includes contacts of the user, such that the contacts of the user are imported to the client from the server so that the user can modify the contacts at the client.