Patent ID: 6662193
Filing Date: 2003-12-09
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
In a system having a database containing original data that is accessible through a combination of a database management system and a resource planning application, a method for gathering and updating the original data, the method comprising the steps of:collecting PDA data with a PDA module, wherein the PDA module stores the PDA data, the PDA module executing on a PDA device; manipulating the PDA data at the PDA device; transmitting the PDA data to a manipulation module from the PDA module, wherein the manipulation module converts the PDA data to database data; and storing the database data in the database by way of an interface module that directly creates, reads, accesses, updates, deletes, selects, and modifies the original data stored in the database without interfacing with the database management system and the resource planning application so that the database data updates the original data.