Patent ID: 7720811

Claim:
A method for synchronizing M application rules across N database instances, wherein each application rule is associated with a software application and is a value of a parameter expressed as a function of one or more additional parameters, said method comprising: executing a rule synchronization agent, wherein said executing comprises updating N 1 database instances of the N database instances with the M application rules and not updating the remaining N-N 1 database instances that remains if N 1 is less than N, wherein M is at least 2, wherein N is at least 2, wherein N 1 is at least 1, wherein if N 1 is less than N then each of the remaining N-N 1 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 rules upon initiation of said executing, and wherein the second characteristic is that the rule synchronization agent is unable to access the remaining N-N 1 database instances during said executing.