Method and Apparatus for Reducing Storage Requirements of Electronic Records
First Claim
1. A system for storage of electronic records comprising:
- a first storage unit to store records; and
a processing system to store and retrieve said records from said first storage unit, said processing system including;
a data manager module to receive non-exception based records and to store said received records in said first storage unit by storing unique information from each received non-exception based record within said first storage unit separately from information common to a plurality of non-exception based records and linking said stored unique information with said stored common information.
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Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention includes a system for storage of electronic records. The system includes a storage unit to store records and a processing system to store and retrieve records from the storage unit. The processing system receives non-exception based records and stores the records in the storage unit. This is accomplished by storing unique information from each received non-exception based record within the storage unit separately from information common to a plurality of non-exception based records. The stored unique information is linked with the stored common information. The present invention embodiments further include a method and a program product apparatus for storing electronic records as described above.
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24 Claims
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1. A system for storage of electronic records comprising:
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a first storage unit to store records; and a processing system to store and retrieve said records from said first storage unit, said processing system including; a data manager module to receive non-exception based records and to store said received records in said first storage unit by storing unique information from each received non-exception based record within said first storage unit separately from information common to a plurality of non-exception based records and linking said stored unique information with said stored common information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 22)
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8. A method of storing electronic records comprising:
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storing information common to a plurality of non-exception based records in a first storage unit; storing unique information of each non-exception based record within said first storage unit separately from said common information; and linking said stored unique information with said stored common information to enable storage of a single instance of said common information for said plurality of non-exception based records and reduce storage requirements for those records. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23)
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15. A program product apparatus including a computer usable medium with computer program logic recorded thereon for storing electronic records, said program product apparatus comprising:
a data manager module to receive non-exception based records and to store said received records in a first storage unit by storing unique information from each received non-exception based record within said first storage unit separately from information common to a plurality of non-exception based records and linking said stored unique information with said stored common information. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24)
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