<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>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!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here are the questions:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">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:</p>
<ol><li style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">replication or database synchronization? Was this on a peer to peer basis?</p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Synchronization via a secure channel?</p>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Access control facility during database synchronisation?</p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Interface component in an application for database synchronisation?</p>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Database synchronisation within a data storage system or an intranet?</p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Tracking changes in data on a peer to peer basis during data synchronization?</p>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">A user to offer and accept invitations for synchronization of data within a data storage system he was part of?</p></li><li style="margin-left:15px">
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">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?</p></li></ol></div><div>Thanks & Regards</div>
<div>Krithika</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><div>--</div><div>Krithika Dutta Narayana</div><div>Program Associate</div><div>The Centre for Internet and Society</div><div>Bangalore</div><div>
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