METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING ELEMENTS STORED BY DEVICES OF A PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention relates to a method and device for synchronizing elements stored by devices of a peer-to-peer communication system. Said method and device are special in that they do not require any time reference and only require one large memory to be housed by a device of the system. The method is characterized in that identifiers are generated according to an order relationship defined in a data repository and a pair of identifiers is associated with the version of each element stored by each device, wherein one of said identifiers, referred to as a root identifier, only identifies the element in the system and the other identifier, referred to as a version identifier, identifies the version of said element that is stored on the device.