Patent ID: 7266566
Filing Date: 2007-09-04
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method of operating a community database, said method comprising the steps of: providing a first source database having data fields therein, said data fields containing data representative of a plurality of client records for a plurality of clients in a community; providing a second source database having data fields therein, said data fields containing data representative of a plurality of entity records for a plurality of entities in the community, wherein at least some of the clients of the first source data base are common with corresponding entities in the second source database; comparing data in a predetermined client record in the first source database with at least one of the entity records in the second source database to determine a correspondence there between, including the steps of: and for each correspondence, reconciling the data in the first and and/or second source databases to optimize the data in each field of the corresponding client record in the first source database to form a reconciled client record; and; storing the reconciled client record.