During synchronization of data between a remote device and a local device, it can be determined if a value for a property on a remote device has changed since a last synchronization of the property between the remote device and a local machine. A remote representation of a property value is compared to a local representation associated with the same property value. If the representations are identical, it can be determined that the property value did not change on the remote device. If, however, they are not identical then the property value must have changed after the remote representation was generated.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
The present application is a continuation of commonly-assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/878,717, filed on Jun. 28, 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,950,835 also entitled "Determining when a Low Fidelity Property Value has Changed During a Sync", which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention provides for a distributed computing system that is capable of determining when data needs to be synced between two computer devices because data has changed on at least a remote device. More particularly, the present invention provides for a sync adapter that uses sync data to detect that a property on a device is new and needs to synchronize with corresponding data on another machine. The sync data is specific to the two devices in that the sync data mirrors data that was last synchronized between these two computing devices. Other example embodiments use the sync data to detect and mark data as low fidelity data for identifying any date and time information associated with the low fidelity data as potentially unreliable.
