Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-11-25
2000-06-06
Black, Thomas G.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 10, 707 8, G06F 1730
Patent
active
060731419
ABSTRACT:
A computer system for providing a current set of records to a plurality of users. The system includes a master database which stores a master set of a plurality of records and a plurality of terminals in communication with the master database. Each of the terminals stores a subset of the master set of records. The system also includes a device that receives input regarding updates to the plurality of users and has a single point of entry to the master database. The input receiving device stores the updates in the master database. The system provides a mechanism that indicates which records have been updated since a predetermined period of time. The system also includes a retrieving device that is responsive to the indicating mechanism and retrieves one or more of the updated fields from the master database and provides those fields to one or more of the terminals. An updating device associated with one or more of the terminals is provided for updating each of the subsets on each of the terminals with the updated fields provided by the retrieving device. A sharing device is provided for sharing the updated fields with at least one of the terminals.
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Black Thomas G.
Coby Frantz
International Business Machine Corporation
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