SYNCHRONIZING FILE PARTITIONS UTILIZING A SERVER STORAGE MODEL

EMBODIMENTS ARE PROVIDED FOR SYNCHRONIZING FILE PARTITIONS (50,60) UTILIZING A SERVER STORAGE MODEL IN A CLIENT-SERVER COMPUTER NETWORK (4). EDITS TO CONTENT (54A) OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MAY BE RECEIVED AT A CLIENT COMPUTER. THE CONTENT MAY BE INCLUDED IN A FIRST PARTITION (50) OF A FILE STORED ON A SERVER COMPUTER (70). THE FIRST PARTITION MAY INCLUDE A FIRST STREAM WHICH INCLUDES THE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CONTENT (54A). THE FILE MAY INCLUDE MULTIPLE PARTITIONS WITH EACH PARTITION INCLUDING ONE OR MORE STREAMS. THE CLIENT COMPUTER MAY GENERATE METADATA (64A) IN A SECOND PARTITION (60) OF THE FILE. THE METADATA MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE EDITS TO THE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CONTENT IN THE FIRST PARTITION. THE SECOND PARTITION (60) MAY THEN BE INDIVIDUALLY SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE SERVER COMPUTER (70) TO STORE THE METADATA. THE FIRST PARTITIONV (50) MAY THEN BE INDIVIDUALLY SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE SERVER COMPUTER (70) TO STORE THE EDITS MADE TO THE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CONTENT.