Patent ID: 7139768
Filing Date: 2006-11-21
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a system wherein a data source schema describes structures and data items, with their data types, relating to the organization of data in a server side data source, said structures and data types having been mapped into a set of OLE DB structures and data types recognized by a client, the client being arranged to access the data source via an OLE DB data provider, a method for completing the mapping of the server side data source into the OLE DB model and localizing the names of the data source structures and data items comprising the steps of: maintaining a dual Schema File at a client side terminal, said dual Schema File containing an original copy of the data source schema and a modifiable copy of the data source schema; displaying the modifiable copy of the data source schema from the dual Schema File in a split window format including one window which provides a tree view of the schema structure and an adjacent window which displays a set of values related to a selected element of the tree view; and modifying one of said values, at least in part in response to a user executed point and click operation; and responding to a user executed point, click, and data entry operation to modify one of the said values.