Patent ID: 7149751
Filing Date: 2006-12-12
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for distributing objects from a source database to a destination database, comprising: enabling a user to select for distribution one or more objects stored in the source database, wherein each of the selected objects is uniquely identified by an object identifier; enabling the user to specify (a) whether the source database structure should be maintained at the destination database and (b) whether object associations should be maintained; creating a distribution object; including in the distribution object the object identifier of each selected object, a source-root-context if the user specified that the source database structure should be maintained at the destination database, and an indicator that indicates that object associations should be maintained if the user specified that object associations should be maintained; building a distribution package based on the distribution object, wherein the distribution package contains the objects identified by the object identifiers contained in the distribution object, wherein the building of a distribution package further comprises: determining the subscribers that are associated with the distribution object; and distributing the distribution package to the determined subscribers.