Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database and file access – Search engines
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-04
2011-01-04
Rones, Charles (Department: 2164)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database and file access
Search engines
C707S741000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07865499
ABSTRACT:
A system for managing computers in a distributed computer network includes a collection agent for each computer being monitored, a local database coupled to each collection agent, one or more condensing agents coupled to the databases, and at least one console module. The condensing agent generates an index table from a source database and sends it upstream to the next level up in the hierarchy of databases. Other condensing agents may in turn act on this index table and send it up to a still further level, until a top-level master node has an index table reflecting the entire network. The console can use the index table to identify what databases contain needed data, and then make only selective connections to databases to answer queries, avoiding connections to all the local databases. The condensing agent also produces summarized data and sends it upstream as well, to be used by the console. Efficiency is improved over conventional systems. Use of the index method and the summary method can be transparent to (hid from) the use of the console, or may be made visible, with selection options.
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Dykema Gossett PLLC
Lakeside Software, Inc.
Ortiz Belix M
Rones Charles
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