Example embodiments provide for preserving memory resources by selecting property values to be assigned time-date information used in resolving conflicts between sync values. The property values may be selected based on the available resources of a remote device, e.g., when the time-date information is to be stored in a field of limited space. Further, the property values may be selected based on historical information, such as the most recently or frequently modified values. Other example embodiments also provide for storing an upper and/or lower boundary of time-date information for the remaining property values not selected. For example, the most recently modified property time-date value may be used for the upper boundary and the oldest modified time-date value may be used for the lower boundary.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
The present application is a continuation of commonly-assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/878,095, filed on Jun. 28, 2004, also entitled "Preserving Memory Resources by Limiting Time-Date Information for a Subset of Properties", which is incorporated herein by reference.
Techniques for reducing overall information loss and processing costs due to data translation in a network populated with communicating data sources and sinks of multiple data representations is described. By employing an "optimization" technique for negotiating "least cost" data representations to be communicated between data source(s) and sink(s) where the "least cost" can be relative to, for example, fidelity requirements and processing costs of the system or the user of the system.
