Transaction scoring is performed in a distributed manner across a client-server computing system. A computing system for processing a transaction includes a server system and a client system. The server system is arranged to process information associated with the transaction, while the client system communicates with the server system and includes a key engine which is arranged to generate keys. The client system and the server system are arranged to cooperate to assess risk associated with the transaction. The client is arranged to send the keys generated by the key engine as a transaction to the server system.

Data is shared over a network, having a plurality of network-connected terminals, each including a visual display processor, storage and memory. The memory is configured to store program instructions for equipping objects stored therein with attributes and for managing the duplication of the objects. The processor is configurable by the program instructions to perform the steps of equipping an object with attributes at a first of the network terminals; at a second of the network terminals, matching the object attributes of the first terminal with the attributes of an object amongst all of the objects stored in the second terminal; duplicating the object from the second terminal to the first terminal; at the first terminal, accessing data in the duplicated object using locally executed object instructions; and maintaining data consistency between the duplicated objects.

A database reporting and data mining system operates in one embodiment on a database of a location aware wireless gateway that processes message, location, event data obtained from an asset sensor or user, and other telemetry data from remote assets such as vehicles of a business enterprise fleet, and presents configurable reports on web pages displayed within the user's web browser in text or chart form. Reports, which may be user-customized, are created in response to user queries regarding, e.g., activity, and trends and summaries of activity for individual vehicles or an entire fleet. Database-stored event data grouped by relationship, e.g., start and end events, enable automatic computation of desired information such as time and distance between events. Report data in XML format are re-formatted in XSL stylesheets.

Server-determined client refresh periods (CRPS) for dynamic directory services are disclosed. In a dynamic directory maintained by a server, clients must send a refresh message to the server every CRP in order to persist in the directory. The server desirably initially sets the CRP for the clients, and is able to later change the CRP. This allows the server to increase the CRP for at least some of the clients as more clients log onto the server, to ensure that the server is able to timely respond to all the clients.

Incident report management is provided for managing received incident reports in an enterprise environment. The incident report management includes a correlator configured to determine whether a received incident report correlates with a previously received incident report, wherein received incident reports of new incidents are forwarded to a response queue.