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Method, system and program products for modifying globally stored tables of a client-server environment

  • US 6,721,742 B1
  • Filed: 05/31/2000
  • Issued: 04/13/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of modifying stored tables of client-server environment, said method comprising:

  • providing, in local memory of a node of said client-server environment, a local table comprising at least a portion of a global table concurrently accessible by a plurality of users of said cliem-server environment, wherein said local table is manipulatable via database functions, as if it was a global table;

    modifying said local table; and

    atomically merging at least a portion of the modified local table with said global table, wherein said merging is performed without user locking of said global table wherein said atomically merging comprises using at least one counter to determine how to modify said global table to reflect one or more changes of said modified local table, wherein said at least one counter comprises a table change counter, and wherein said global table is modified after a predefined relationship between said table change counter and a table parameter value is satisfied.

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