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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1997
Gordon A. Booman, Berlin, MA (US);
Robert S. Diebboll, Lincoln, MA (US);
Ferdinand Engel, Northboro, MA (US);
Arthur P. Hamlin, Stow, MA (US);
Stephen F. McKellar, Milford, MA (US);
Concord Communications Incorporated, Marlboro, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention features methods of, and systems for generating a report that depends on data stored in a plurality of remote workstations. The methods and systems involve at least some of the following steps: sending a request from a master workstation to the remote workstations specifying a group name and a named function; identifying data stored within each of the remote workstations belonging to a group specified by the group name; operating on the identified data within each of the remote workstations according to an algorithm specified by the named function to generate an output for each remote workstation; returning the output from each remote workstation to the master workstation; and consolidating the outputs at the master workstations to generate the report.