Patent ID: 7363264

Claim:
A method performed in a Financial Service Organization (FSO) computer system, the method comprising: building a first key value from one or more data element values stored in a first memory in the FSO computer system; comparing the first key value to one or more key values stored in a second memory, the second memory comprising one or more database identifier values each corresponding to a respective key value of the one or more key values, the one or more key values and the one or more database identifier values stored in the second memory being entered by a user of the FSO computer system during a configuration of the FSO computer system; writing into a third memory a first database identifier value of the one or more database identifier values stored in the second memory in response to finding a match between the first key value and one of the one or more key values stored in the second memory, the first database identifier value comprising a pointer to a database location in a first database; and accessing the first database in response to writing the first database identifier value corresponding to the matching key value into the third memory, wherein accessing the first database comprises using the pointer associated with the first database identifier value to access a database location that is pointed to by the pointer.