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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2007
Barrie R. Green, Letchworth, GB;
Leonard D. Greenwood, Beds, GB;
Barrie R. Green, Letchworth, GB;
Leonard D. Greenwood, Beds, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to a data comparison tool, method and computer program product for analyzing a set of data, the set of data being derived from an original set of data, comprising: comparing the derived set of data with the original set of data; generating a hyperlink to represent each difference between the derived and original data set, each difference being a changed item, an additional item, or a missing data item; providing at least one agent that is activated on selection of the hyperlink to operate on the changed, additional or missing data item; whereby a list of hyperlinks is generated to represent all the differences of the derived and original data set and selecting one of the hyperlinks will execute an agent to operate on a single data item in one of the data sets. An editor agent is provided for allowing the user to confirm or make further changes to the data item. An undo agent is provided for undoing the difference wherein a changed item is changed back, an additional item is removed and a missing item is replaced.