Patent ID: 6189011
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An article of manufacture comprising:a computer usable medium having program code causing a computer to effect maintaining a database having a central database and a plurality of individual partially replicated databases, wherein updates made to the central database or to one of the individual, partially replicated databases are selectively propagated to a recipient partially replicated database if the owner of the recipient partially replicated database has visibility to the data being selectively transmitted, the computer readable program code in said article of manufacture comprising:computer readable program code for causing a computer to effect replicating a group or records as a single logical docking object;computer readable program code for causing a computer to effect applying a single set of visibility rules to the data content of the entire logical docking unit, andcomputer readable program code for causing a computer to effect propagating the docking object to the recipient individual partially replicated database if the owner thereof has visibility to the data being transmitted in the single logical docking object.