Abstract: A database management system for the creation and management of relational data over a network. The database management system includes one or more remote or local database storage facilities and a database server computer executing a database server application that manages access to one or more database storage facilities through the network. The server computer is in communication with the one or more remote or local database storage facilities. The database management system further has a computer workstation in communication with the server computer, wherein the computer workstation executes a remote accessing program in the form of a web browser to access via the server computer data stored in the one or more remote database storage facilities.

Abstract: A method of informing a user of a data processing system about which of his previous selections in a current data processing session have disabled, or otherwise "affected", selections which would ordinarily be selectable. Control of the data processing system is managed by listing the selections available to the user on series of menus presented on the display means. A CPU instructs the display means to display the menu which corresponds to that particular point in the program. Following the method of the present invention, the CPU has kept track of the selections made by user. By referring to a special data file which correlates or compares these past selections to the list of actions displayed in the current menu, the CPU determines which of these actions are "affected". These affected actions are then denoted on the menu in some way, e.g., changing the affected action's color, marking the affected actions with a special symbol, etc.