Data collator for a plurality of asynchronous/synchronous data generation entities

摘要

The present invention relates to a data collator useful in a scenario where multiple entities/applications, which are unaware of the data processing of each other, want to collate their data before passing it to the external entity. Each entity informs the data collator about its dependency for a given common reference value on other entities in the system while storing the data generated with the data collator. The data generated and the dependency data form an input stream into the data collator which then stores the data generated while verifying the dependencies. The data collator then delivers the complete generated data values as a bunch to the internal/external receiving/requesting entity when the required dependencies are satisfied. Thus, a complete match is attained before the data generated is transmitted to the receiving/requesting addressee by the data collator.