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US 2017/0249303 A1Published application
Vendor/client information system architecture
AssigneeThomson Reuters Global Resources
InventorsRonald Wencel, Richard BOONE, Thomas G. MELLING
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Abstract
A data network storing data relating to work done by vendors for clients is described. The network includes two or more servers, each server containing (1) an exhaustive vendor data base that contains client-independent vendor data for every vendor, and (2) one or more individual client databases, each containing client information for a single client. The exhaustive vendor data base is replicated between the servers, and the client information for each client is contained by one individual client data base on one server.
Claims21
(canceled)
A system comprising:
- a plurality of database servers, each database server of the plurality of database servers comprising:
- a vendor organization database containing client organization-independent vendor organization data for each vendor organization of a plurality of vendor organizations, the vendor organization database being replicated between the plurality of database servers;
- a plurality of individual client organization databases containing client organization information for single a client organization among a plurality of client organizations;
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- a vendor user credentials database configured to store vendor user access information, wherein the vendor user access information is used to authenticate the vendor user;
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- upon the vendor user being authenticated, permitting the vendor user to modify the vendor organization database wherein the modification to the vendor organization database is propagated to the replicated databases stored on each of the plurality of database servers.
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A system comprising:
- a vendor organization database containing vendor organization information, the vendor organization database being replicated between a plurality of servers;
- a vendor user credentials database configured to store vendor user access information, wherein the stored vendor user access information is used to authenticate the vendor user;
- upon the vendor user being authenticated, permitting the vendor user to modify the vendor organization database, wherein upon the vendor organization database being modified, the modification to the vendor organization database is propagated to the copies of the vendor organization database replicated on the plurality of servers;
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- for each of a plurality of client organizations, a client organization database containing client organization information that is stored separately from said vendor organization information on the plurality of servers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.