Patent ID: 6944625

Claim:
A method of gathering entry data for a target database, which contains data records with data record entries related to data record entry identifiers, from at least two source databases similar to one another in content, which source databases contain substantially the same entry data in data records with at least partially matching data record entry identifiers, the method comprising: reception of first data records from a first source database and of second data records from a second source database; tagging of similar first and second data records, which exhibit substantially matching data record entries for matching data record entry identifiers and thus substantially identify the same entry data; entry of data record entries contained in tagged similar first and second data records into a new data record in the target database, if matching data record entries for all matching data record entry identifiers are contained in the similar first and second data records; tagging of similar first and second data records as error data records, if the similar first and second data records comprise at least one different data record entry for a matching data record entry identifier; generation of a first error flag identifying the tagged error data records.