Patent ID: 8484108
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of tracking entities in a database, in which entities are collections of one or more accounts, and accounts are collections of one or more identities, comprising: assigning each account of a plurality of accounts a unique oldest entity identifier belonging only to the account, wherein the unique oldest entity identifier is the unique entity identifier assigned to a unique oldest entity that contains only the account and contains no other accounts; monitoring an age of each account of the plurality of accounts by attaching a timestamp to each account at the time each account is created; and reusing an identifier for an oldest entity when merging two accounts into a first entity by naming the first entity as the reused identifier for the oldest entity, wherein the two accounts are merged into the first entity by placing the two accounts into the first entity; adding the oldest entity contained in a first entity into a second entity with the merging of a first entity into the second entity; indirectly containing in the first entity the plurality of accounts other than the account the first entity uniquely identifies; displaying the entities in the database.