METHOD FOR A SYNCHRONIZATION OF OBJECTS BETWEEN A PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGER AND AN EXTERNAL SERVER

摘要

The present invention is related to methods for data synchronization, and more particularly, to a system and method for synchronizing custom objects between MS Outlook and an external server, that substantially obviates one or several of the disadvantages of the related art. In one aspect of the invention, a method for data synchronization is provided. Custom Objects are stored in MICROSOFT Outlook as Outlook Items. Two continuous processes check if there are changes in the Outlook Items and if these changes are saved on the hard drive. MICROSOFT Storage Items are used to store information about the fields of the Outlook Items that have been changed in RAM and fields of Outlook Items that have been saved to the hard disk drive. Then, information about both changed and saved fields is sent to an external server. Subsequently, notifications about successful saving of the fields on the external server are received. The information about the fields changed on the external server is received, as well. The fields changed on external server are saved to Outlook Items. Thus, two-way synchronization between MICROSOFT Outlook and the external server is achieved.