Abstract: A database synchronizer facilitates computing systems which have client-side and server-side applications that share data in similar database structures, but which do not maintain a continuous connection to a single shared data source. In general, a database synchronizer is used to share data among many nodes on the computing system. The database synchronizer is used to synchronize the data in a central database for a particular client with the data on that client's intermittently-connected computer. Updates performed by either client or server are propagated to the other side when a connection is established and eventually from the server to other clients in the system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 9, 1996
Date of Patent:
July 20, 1999
Assignee:
Oracle Corporation
Inventors:
Jonathan A. Bauer, Andrew Bodge, Steven Huberman