Patent ID: 7693819
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a database management system communicably interfaced with a database and a client, the database comprising a plurality of records, each record having a Unique Identifier (UID) assigned within the database, a method comprising: receiving, from the client, a client records request comprising a filter, a page size, and a UID position (UIDp), the filter specifying one or more conditions that records returned to the client responsive to the client records request must satisfy, the page size specifying a user configurable quantity of records to be transferred to the client responsive to the client records request, and the UIDp specifying a maximum UID value assigned to a record within a first group of records previously sent to the client which also satisfies the one or more conditions of the filter; creating an ordered record set comprising all records in the database satisfying the one or more conditions specified by the filter and sorted by the UID of each record; selecting a second group of records from the ordered record set, wherein the second group of records begins with a record having a UID greater than the UIDp received from the client, and wherein the quantity of records within the second group of records corresponds to the page size; and sending the second group of records to the client responsive to the client records request.