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Abstract

Techniques for providing pervasive synchronization services to digital assets are described. With the synchronization services, copies of a digital asset, regardless where they are physically located as long as they are in predefined or registered storage area (e.g., a folder or repository), are kept synchronized. In other words, when one has made a change to a file on one computer, copies of the file distributed on other computers are all updated with the change. The pervasive synchronization services are performed by using metadata sets of the digital assets without releasing the content of the digital assets. A metadata set includes some or all of header information of a file holding a digital asset and supplemental information generated about the file, wherein the supplemental information includes at least location information to indicate where there are copies of the file. The location information facilitates a computing device to synchronize all the copies of the file with a change made by a user to one of the copies.

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