Patent ID: 7668870
Filing Date: 2010-02-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for updating web pages on a web server without republishing the web pages, comprising: providing on each one of a plurality of production database servers a live version of at least one business data table containing information used to populate web pages on a plurality of production web servers; storing in a quality assurance database server a quality assurance version of the at least one business data table used to populate pages on a quality assurance web server; allowing a maker at a business workstation to access the quality assurance database server and enter a change to data on the quality assurance version of the at least one business data table and a designation of a time for the change to be replicated from the quality assurance database server to the live version of the at least one business data table on each of the plurality of production database servers; allowing a checker at the business workstation to access the quality assurance database server to review and approve or reject the change to the data on the quality assurance version of the at least one business data table; and if the checker approves the change, simultaneously replicating the change to the data on the quality assurance version of the at least one business data table at the designated time from the quality assurance database server to the live version of the at least one business data table on each of the plurality of the production database servers.