US Patent:
20040073581, Apr 15, 2004
Inventors:
Lawrence McVoy - San Francisco CA, US
Andrew Chang - Los Altos CA, US
Wayne Scott - Churubusco IN, US
International Classification:
G06F012/00
Abstract:
A version controlled associative array is provided. A method of the invention includes providing a version control system on a computer, creating within the version control system an associative array comprising a collection of keys and corresponding values, applying a version control operation to the associative array to version control the collection of keys and corresponding values, and applying a version control operation to a collection of associative arrays, each viewed as a database record, and organized as a group of database tables forming a database. An apparatus, a computer system, and a computer readable medium pertaining to the version controlled associative array invention are also provided.