Patent ID: 8886659

Claim:
In a computing environment, a computer-implemented method of updating data at a data store in response to receiving update data from a client system, the method comprising: the client system that includes at least one processor, receiving a modified value for a particular field that is stored in memory at the client system, the modified value comprising a modification of an existing value of the particular field, the particular field corresponding to a record stored at a data store with a plurality of fields including the particular field having a data store value; and the client system transmitting the modified value for the particular filed, along with a unique record identity value corresponding to a record identity field for the record, along with an original value of the particular field to the data store and without transmitting at least some value data corresponding to at least one other field associated with the record; wherein, at the data store, the original value received from the client system is compared with the data store value that is currently stored in the record at the data store, the unique record identity value received from the client system being used to identify the record, and wherein, when it is determined that the received original value is equal to the data store value for the record, then the data store value which is stored by the data store is automatically changed to the modified value corresponding to the modification that was made at the client system.