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Methods and systems for client or customer-site transaction processing in a distributed database system

  • US 5,826,270 A
  • Filed: 12/28/1995
  • Issued: 10/20/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A distributed database system for processing a client or customer-site initiated on-line database transaction comprising:

  • a transaction generator, which initiates at least one database transaction, including information identifying service location equipment and a desired product, and transmits said at least one transaction to a dispatcher means for tracking a geographic location of said generator, for routing each of said at least one transactions to a geographic system, and for queuing each of said at least one transactions within a queue;

    transaction transfer means for retrieving said at least one transaction from said queue and transmiting said at least one transaction to interrogation server means;

    wherein said server interrogation means for interrogating data extraction means, which extracts said information identifying said service location equipment and said product from said transaction, formulates an addressability change transaction, and transmits said change transaction to said server interrogation means; and

    wherein said server interrogation means transmit said change transaction to an addressability change means for identifying controller means for enabling and disabling said desired product, and for instructing said controller means to update the status of said product.

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