Patent ID: 7103652

Claim:
In a computer network having an events notification system, said network including at least one client having a client-database, at least one server having at least one server-database, said at least one client: (1) selecting said events and desired notification responses thereto to obtain selected data, (2) creating a plurality of event-notification template objects from said selected data and storing said objects in said client database; and, (3) transmitting said objects from said client database to selected ones of said at least one server to obtain server-database event notification template objects and commanding immediate usage of said server-database template objects by said at least one server, an improved method to maintain operating integrity of said network, said improvement comprising: said at least one client ensuring that any pre-existing said server database template objects and any of said plurality of template objects which are identically-named contain identical object data; wherein said ensuring comprises said client: retrieving said any pre-existing said server-database template objects and comparing each of the names of said any pre-existing template objects with each of the names of said plurality of template objects stored in said client-database; adding new templates comprising pre-existing object data associated with any of said names of said any pre-existing template objects that do not match said names of said plurality of template objects, to said client database; and, resolving any conflict between any said any pre-existing said server-database template objects and any of said plurality of template objects having identical names but having said pre-existing object data different from said object data.