Appeal No. 97-3660
Application 08/055,802
a. initially 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 group of pending records or history records having
a timestamp version within a predefined time period
as selected records, and in response to such
selection:
(1) time-sequentially reading the selected
records;
(2) generating a composite record by
selecting all of the data fields of the earliest
version of the selected records as an initial
composite record, then comparing the data fields of
the next earliest version of the selected records to
the corresponding data fields of the composite
record, selecting all data fields from said next
earliest version that differ from the corresponding
data fields of the composite record, overlaying the
selected data fields on the corresponding data
fields of the composite record to generate a next
composite record, and repeating such comparison,
selection, and overlaying for all selected records;
(3) comparing the data fields of the
composite record to the corresponding data fields of
the current record;
(4) selecting as difference fields all data
fields from the composite record that differ from
the corresponding data fields of the current record;
(5) displaying on the data entry screen the
selected difference fields from the composite 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.
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