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Global asset management
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In this article, the authors present a system and a method for managing data among devices, servers and systems by providing a logically unified and aggregated view of a user's digital assets including metadata from any system node or device.Abstract:
A system and a method for managing data among devices, servers and systems by providing a logically unified and aggregated view of a user's digital assets including metadata from any system node or device. This invention describes a method supporting the aggregated view by using manifests. A manifest is a file/database that includes data about all media assets within a user's virtual collection.read more
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Detection of Mutual Inconsistency in Distributed Systems
D.S. Parker,Gerald J. Popek,G. Rudisin,A. Stoughton,Bruce J. Walker,E. Walton,J.M. Chow,D. Edwards,S. Kiser,Charles S. Kline +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a new approach, involving version vectors and origin points, is presented and shown to detect single file, multiple copy mutual inconsistency effectively, which has been used in the design of LOCUS, a local network operating system at UCLA.
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System and method for exchanging images
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Maintaining consistency of database replicas
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Digital home movie library
Scott F. Watson,Bruce Frazer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a set-top box (6.0) is used to store movies and the movies are wirelessly transmitted datacasting technology, where the user is unaware of the data being sent.
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System for user control of version /Synchronization in mobile computing
TL;DR: In this article, a universal system for synchronizing servers which accommodates wide area mobile computing while at the same time making the process more efficient is presented, where a summarizing version vector is used to minimize the amount of data transmitted by avoiding the necessity for exchanging version vectors for individual objects.