Patent 7418466 was granted and assigned to Palmsource on August, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system thereof for identifying records are described. Records on a node are distinguished from other records on the node by assigning each record a unique local identifier. When a record is moved from one node to another node, a unique global identifier is assigned to the record. A translation technique is employed to map the local identifier to the global identifier (and vice versa).