[FSUG-Bangalore] Questions on software applications

[Krithika]

Dear All,

As part of Centre for Internet and Society's (CIS') project on software
patents, we need your technical expertise and assistance in getting answers
for a few questions relating to software applications. If you have any
information on any of the following questions, please let us know. Your help
is greatly appreciated!

Here are the questions:

I. What are the features in Oracle, SQL server, Lotus Notes, or any version
control software in existence prior to August 2005 which provided for:

   1.

   replication or database synchronization? Was this on a peer to peer
   basis?
   2.

   Synchronization via a secure channel?
   3.

   Access control facility during database synchronisation?
   4.

   Interface component in an application for database synchronisation?
   5.

   Database synchronisation within a data storage system or an intranet?
   6.

   Tracking changes in data on a peer to peer basis during data
   synchronization?
   7.

   A user to offer and accept invitations for synchronization of data within
   a data storage system he was part of?
   8.

   Maintenance of a membership list, modification of membership list for a
   community of users who could synchronize their data on a peer to peer basis?

Thanks & Regards
Krithika

--
Krithika Dutta Narayana
Program Associate
The Centre for Internet and Society
Bangalore

http://www.cis-india.org
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