Patent ID: 7318068

Claim:
A method for synchronizing M application documentations across N database instances, wherein each application documentation comprises a description of an aspect of a software application, said method comprising: providing the N database instances, wherein N is at least 2, and wherein each database instance of the N database instances comprise a same structural design, providing the M application documentations, wherein M is at least 2; and executing a documentation synchronization agent, wherein said executing comprises updating N1 database instances of the N database instances with the M application documentations and not updating the remaining N-N1 database instances that remains if N1 is less than N, wherein N1 is at least 1, wherein if N1 is less than N then each of the remaining N-N1 database instances comprise at least one characteristic of a first characteristic and a second characteristic; wherein the first characteristic is that the remaining database instances comprise the M application documentations upon initiation of said executing, and wherein the second characteristic is that the documentation synchronization agent is unable to access the remaining N-N1 database instances during said executing.