Method for data replication with conflict detection
US6058401A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 20, 1998 |
| Grant date | May 2, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 20, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99953
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Communication costs are reduced in a distributed system that supports data replication with conflict detection by sending small values or nulls as replacements for field values that are not strictly used for replication or conflict detection. Specifically, nulls are propagated for new values of unmodified fields, old values of fields in unmodified groups of linked fields, and old values of fields for which conflict detection has been disabled. Flag values that indicate which actual old and new values were sent may be generated and propagated along with the replicated data.
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