Inherited information propagator for objects

A machine readable medium having instructions stored thereon for causing a computer to perform a method of modifying information inherited between objects when one of the objects is modified, the method comprising:

• receiving a modification to an object;
• searching a directory database for related objects;
• recalculating portions of the related objects which need to be modified as a result of the received modification;
• and
• modifying the related objects with the recalculated portions.

A machine readable medium having a data structure stored thereon for use in propagating changes to a replicated directory database comprising a plurality of directory objects, the data structure comprising:

• an incrementing number data field to enable the data structure to function as a queue;
• a start object data field to identify an object of the directory objects with which to begin propagating a change to the object and to a set of corresponding objects comprising information inherited from the object;
• and
• an order index data field to identify a next object of the directory objects to continue propagating the change to the next object and to a set of corresponding objects comprising information inherited from the next object.

In a distributed computing environment at a first computing device, a method for propagating changes across multiple copies of a distributed directory database, the method comprising:

• modifying a parent object and one or more related objects in a first copy of the distributed directory database;
• responsive to modifying the parent object, communicating a single replication message indicating the parent object to a second computing device in the distributed computing environment;
• and
• whereupon receipt of the single replication message causes the second computing device to synchronize a second copy of the distributed database with the first copy such that there is a one-to-one correspondence between modifications made in the first copy and modifications made in the second copy.

A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for propagating changes across multiple copies of a distributed directory database, the computer-executable instructions comprising instructions for:

• modifying a parent object and one or more related objects in a first copy of the distributed directory database;
• responsive to modifying the parent object, communicating a single replication message indicating the parent object to a second computing device in the distributed computing environment;
• and
• whereupon receipt of the single replication message causes the second computing device to synchronize a second copy of the distributed database with the first copy such that there is a one-to-one correspondence between modifications made in the first copy and modifications made in the second copy.

In a distributed computing environment, a method for propagating a plurality of changes across multiple copies of a distributed directory database, the method comprising:

• receiving a message indicating that a first object in a distributed directory database has been modified;
• responsive to receiving the message:
• identifying one or more other objects in the distributed directory database that correspond to the first object;
• and
• for each other object in at least one subset of the one or more other objects, changing an attribute of the other object based on a state of the first object and characteristics of the other object.