Patent ID: 6868428
Filing Date: 2005-03-15
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system of synchronizing databases of a plurality of monitoring devices in a communications system having a communications device, a first monitoring device and a second monitoring device for monitoring the communications device and a network connecting these devices, and in which the communications device retains a network address of the second monitoring device and each of the monitoring devices accommodates a database, comprising: an address read-out request transmitting unit transmitting from the first monitoring device to the communications device a request for reading the network address of the second monitoring device; an altered data read-out request transmitting unit transmitting from the first monitoring device to the second monitoring device a request for reading registered data which is altered by a updating operation and recorded in the database accommodated by the second monitoring device by using the network address of second monitoring device received from the communications device, when the first monitoring device receives the network address of the second monitoring device from the communications device; a database updating unit updating registered data recorded in the database accommodated by the first monitoring device based on the registered data received from the second monitoring device, when the first monitoring device receives the registered data which is altered by the updating operation and recorded in the database accommodated by the second monitoring device from the second monitoring device.