Appeal No. 97-3660
Application 08/055,802
master, pending, and history records each comprising
at least one data field and displayable at least in
part as logical records, comprising the steps of:
a. intially displaying on the data entry
screen a logical master record as a current record
with a default attribute;
b. enabling selection by the user of one of
a pending record or history record by timestamp
version as a selected record, and in response to
such selection:
(1) reading the selected record;
(2) comparing the data fields of the
selected record to the corresponding data fields of
the current record;
(3) selecting as difference fields all data
fields from the selected record that differ from the
corresponding data fields of the current record;
(4) displaying on the data entry screen the
selected difference fields from the selected record
overlaid on the corresponding data fields of the
displayed current record to generate a next current
record, the selected difference fields being
displayed with an attribute distinct from the
default attribute.
3. In an interactive data entry system wherein
a user is presented with a data entry screen, a
method for selecting and representing time-varying
data from a time-relational database management
system having a plurality of timestamped versions of
master, pending, and history records each comprising
at least one data field and displayable at least in
part as logical records, comprising the steps of:
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