Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1996-10-31
1998-12-29
Black, Thomas G.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707201, 707 10, 707203, G06F 1730
Patent
active
058550143
ABSTRACT:
Described herein is a Relational Workgroup Platform. A Relational Workgroup Platform comprising a workgroup platform; and a @WITGetField( ) functionality. The workgroup platform, illustrated herein by Lotus Notes, comprises a server functionality as means of storing databases for and amongst a network of computer workstations, said databases comprising data fields and a set of functions for manipulating data and data fields within said databases, and for writing data to and retrieving data from said data fields from within any one database. The Relational Workgroup Platform of the present invention is created by adding to the workgroup platform a @WITGetField( ) functionality that comprises means for retrieving data from a data field of any one of the databases and transferring same to any other said database and wherein said @WITGetField( ) functionality is usable as an argument in other functions.
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Application Partners, Inc.
Black Thomas G.
Channavajjala Srirama
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