Simple and secure method for blocking data records from CGI scripts

• US 20030101270A1
• Filed: 11/26/2002
• Published: 05/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Heptner, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US10/304,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20030101270A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/523 Mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/526 Mutual exclusion algorithms

Abstract

A data communication method, a computer device for use in a data communications system, and a data communications system are provided which have at least one central computer device, at least one memory device in which a large number of data elements are stored, a number of clients which can access the data elements, and a time data provision device which provides the computer time or data relevant to the client time, wherein each data element has an associated data field in which communication control data determined on the basis of the data relating to the computer or client time is entered which can indicate a blocking duration time or on the basis of which a blocking duration time can be determined, with respect to which, after an access, initiated from a first client, to a specific data element, this data element is enabled once again for an access initiated from a further client.

Claims

1. A data communications system, comprising:

at least one central computer device;

at least one memory device in which a plurality of data elements are stored;

a plurality of clients which can access the data elements; and

a time data provision device which provides data relevant to one of computer time and client time;

wherein each data element has an associated data field in which communication control data determined based on the data relevant to the computer time and client time is entered which can indicate a blocking duration time or based on which a blocking duration time can be determined, with respect to which, after an access, initiated from a first client, to a specific data element, the data element is enabled once again for an access initiated from a further client.

2. A data communications system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, for a read/write access initiated from the first client to the data element, a read access is first of all carried out to the data element, followed by a write access, with the write access being carried out only once the communication control data has been checked.

3. A data communications system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the write access is carried out only once the communication control data has been checked for identity.

4. A data communications system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communication control data which indicates the blocking duration time is determined by respectively increasing one of the computer time and the client time by a predetermined time period.

5. A data communications system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the predetermined time period is between 2 and 30 minutes.

6. A data communications system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the predetermined time period is between 5 and 20 minutes.

7. A data communications system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the predetermined time period is between 10 and 15 minutes.

8. A data communications system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data elements are stored in structured form, with a plurality of data elements each being allocated to one file.

9. A data communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein, before access to the data element, the corresponding file is blocked, and the data element is released again after the access.

10. A data communications system as claimed claim 1, wherein the central computer device and the clients communicate via the Internet.

11. A data communications system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client is a computer.

12. A data communications system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client is a telephone.

13. A data communications system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the access which is initiated from the first client to the data element is annotated in the communication control data with assistance from an access identifier which identifies the access to a data element, by one of allocating a new access identifier and modifying an already allocated access identifier.

14. A data communications system as claimed in claim 13, wherein, when an access to the data element is first of all initiated from the first client and then, once the data element has been released after the blocking duration time, from the further client, the access which is initiated from the further client is annotated in the communication control data with assistance from the access identifier.

15. A data communications system as claimed in claim 14, wherein the access which is initiated from the further client is annotated in the communication control data by one of allocating a new access identifier and modifying an already allocated access identifier.

16. A data communications system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the write access is carried out only when the access identifier is one of identical to the access identifier allocated for the read access and identical to the access identifier modified in this case.

17. A data communications system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the central computer device initiates the determination of the communication control data.

18. A data communications system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the clients is a computer which initiates the determination of the communication control data.

19. A data communication method, wherein a plurality of data elements can be accessed from a plurality of clients, the data elements being stored in a memory device which is associated with a central computer device, the method comprising the steps of:

providing data which relates to one of computer time and client time by a time data provision device;

providing each data element with an associated data field in which communication control data determined based on the data relating to one of the computer time and the client time is entered which can indicate a blocking duration time or based on which a blocking duration time can be determined; and

enabling, with respect to the blocking duration time, after an access, initiated from a first client, to a specific data element, the data element once again for an access initiated from a further client.