Intelligent transaction

US6144941A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Solid Information Technology Oy · FI

Inventors

• Timo Hotti · Helsinki, FI
• Jarmo Parkkinen · Espoo, FI

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 24, 1998
• Grant date: Nov 7, 2000
• Expiry date: Feb 24, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/12
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A plurality of steps, which are intended to modify the data in a transaction, form a transaction (40) comprising statements (41, 42, 43). In the method according to the invention there is formed a data exchange space (47) common to the transaction in order to make the parameters available to the statements belonging to the transaction and in order to transmit data between the statements belonging to the transaction. The system (30) maintaining the first version of the database is arranged to store the modifications to be made in the database as transactions, which comprise statements as well as parameters, both regarding the statements and regarding the transaction. The system (31) maintaining the second database version is arranged to form a transaction on the basis of the message it receives, whereby the transaction comprises statements, and to reserve an information exchange space (47) in the system memory in order to make the parameters available to the statements belonging to the transaction and in order to transmit data between the statements belonging to the transaction.