Occasionally Connected Computing

I found an old initiative from Intel called Occasionally Connected Computing (OCC) that concerned how to create applications that had intermittent connectivity and needed offline access. It looks like nothing came of the OCC initiative, but studying some of their patterns and design choices for a dojo.offline and dojo.sync package might be useful:

http://www.devx.com/intel/article/16081/

I need to study some more of this.