HIERARCHICAL ADMINISTRATION PORTAL

摘要

A process for efficiently storing and accessing data for a payment system is described. An association is created between a payment system participant and a hierarchy node associated with a hierarchy. An association is created between a payment system data element and each node in the hierarchy. The hierarchy is stored in a first database and the second data elements are stored in a second database. A request for information is accepted from a payment system participant. The hierarchy is retrieved from the first database. The second database is traversed to obtain a set of data elements including all of the data elements located at memory locations associated with each node in a portion of the hierarchy. The set of data elements is provided in response to the request. The portion of the hierarchy traversed to obtain the data elements consists of all nodes subordinate to the hierarchy node.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of providing hierarchical administration, comprising:
creating a first association between a payment system participant and a hierarchy node, the hierarchy node being associated with a level of a hierarchy; creating a second association between a set of payment system data elements and a set of nodes in the hierarchy; storing the hierarchy in a first database; storing the set of payment system data elements in a second database; accepting a request for information from the payment system participant via a user interface; retrieving the hierarchy from the first database; using the retrieved hierarchy to traverse the second database to obtain a subset of the set of payment system data elements consisting of the payment system data elements in the set of payment system data elements that are located at memory locations associated with each node in a portion of the hierarchy; and providing the subset of the set of payment system data elements to the payment system participant as a response to the request for information; wherein the portion of the hierarchy consists of each node in the hierarchy that is subordinate to the hierarchy node as indicated by the retrieved hierarchy and excludes each node in the hierarchy that is not subordinate to the hierarchy node as indicated by the retrieved hierarchy.