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Web-based strategic client planning system for end-user creation of queries, reports and database updates

  • US 7,013,312 B2
  • Filed: 06/21/2001
  • Issued: 03/14/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of querying a database through a secure network using a common object request broker architecture (CORBA), wherein said database is associated with a server computer running a server process, said server computer being connected to, and in communication with, a client computer through a network, said method comprising:

  • issuing, by a client process running on said client computer, a query form for data from said database;

    sending said query form from said client computer to said server computer,processing said query form, by said server computer, and retrieving rows of data satisfying said query form from said database as a worksheet grid form defining selected tabular data, wherein said worksheet grid form comprises multiple rows of data;

    sending said worksheet grid form from said server computer to said client computer;

    packaging, by said client computer, said worksheet grid form representing updated data for marshaling tabular data for transfer between said client computer and said server computer, wherein said packaging of said worksheet grid form includes editing results of said query form and saving changes of data contained in said worksheet grid form in said database of said server;

    updating said database through said network by transmitting said worksheet grid form from said client computer to said server computer; and

    wherein said updating of said tabular data includes making cascaded mass changes to a set of related data across multiple tables, andwherein said updating of said database of said worksheet grid form includes allowing only selected tables, rows, and columns to be updated by authorized users.

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