OPTIMIZING DATA SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN MOBILE CLIENTS AND DATABASE SYSTEMS

摘要

Mechanisms and methods are provided for optimizing data synchronization between clients and database systems. These mechanisms and methods provide optimizations for synchronization requests, by either breaking a synchronization request into multiple smaller requests, or by executing different code routines for differing client types, or by pre-caching data that a user is anticipated to want at a future point. Such optimization techniques can enable clients with varying capacities (e.g., mobile client vs. full desktop client) to optimally utilize their respective device capabilities.

主权项

1. A method of pre-caching synchronization data, the method comprising:
receiving a synchronization request for one or more feeds of objects stored in a database system, the synchronization request associated with a user, each feed including feed items that are each associated with one or more objects of the database system; retrieving one or more feed items based on the synchronization request; analyzing the retrieved feed items to identify the one or more objects related to the retrieved feed items; retrieving at least one of the identified objects prior to receiving, from the user, a request for the at least one identified object; and sending the retrieved objects to a user-accessible cache.