Partially replicated database for a network of store-and-forward message systems
US5581757A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 20, 1995 |
| Grant date | Dec 3, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 20, 2015 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M3/53325
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Method for generating and maintaining a user name database in a network of store-and-forward message system nodes, wherein databases associated with the individual nodes of the network are not completely replicated. In accordance with the present invention, whenever a sender addresses a message recipient whose name is not stored in a database associated with the message sender's system node, the message sender's system obtains the message recipient's name from a database associated with the message recipient's system node and the message sender's system node updates its associated database with the message recipient's name.
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