1. A surface texture measuring device comprising:
a drive module configured to drive a stylus so that the stylus is traced along a surface of a measured substance in a state that the stylus is brought into contact with the surface of the measured substance;
a stylus displacement detector configured to detect displacement of the stylus in a direction crossing a trace direction;
a measurement module configured to measure surface texture of the measured substance based on the displacement amount of the stylus
a threshold value storage module configured to store a threshold;
a stylus move distance detector configured to detect a move distance in the trace direction of the stylus;
a cumulative move distance storage module configured to cumulatively store the move distance of the stylus detected by the stylus move distance detector; and
a notification module configured to make a comparison between the threshold value stored in the threshold value storage module and the cumulative move distance stored in the cumulative move distance storage module and to notify a user of replacement of the stylus when the cumulative move distance has exceeded the threshold value.
2. The surface texture measuring device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:
an input module,
wherein the threshold value storage module is configured to store the threshold value input through the input module.
3. The surface texture measuring device as claimed in claim 2 further comprising:
a material threshold value storage module configured to store threshold values corresponding to different materials of measured substances; and
a threshold value write module configured to read the threshold value corresponding to the material input through the input module from the material threshold value storage module and to set the read threshold value in the threshold value storage module.
4. The surface texture measuring device as claimed in claim 3 further comprising:
a display module, said display module being configured to display the measurement result of the surface texture of the measured substance and to display replacement notification information,
wherein the notification module is configured to make a comparison between the threshold value stored in the threshold value storage module and the cumulative move distance stored in the cumulative move distance storage module and to display replacement notification information of to notify the user of replacement of the stylus on the display module when the cumulative move distance has exceeded the threshold value.
5. The surface texture measuring device as claimed in claim 2 further comprising:
a display module, said display module being configured to display the measurement result of the surface texture of the measured substance and to display replacement notification information,
wherein the notification module is configured to make a comparison between the threshold value stored in the threshold value storage module and the cumulative move distance stored in the cumulative move distance storage module and to display replacement notification information of to notify the user of replacement of the stylus on the display module when the cumulative move distance has exceeded the threshold value.
6. The surface texture measuring device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:
a display module, said display module being configured to display the measurement result of the surface texture of the measured substance and to display replacement notification information,
wherein the notification module is configured to make a comparison between the threshold value stored in the threshold value storage module and the cumulative move distance stored in the cumulative move distance storage module and to display replacement notification information to notify the user of replacement of the stylus on the display module when the cumulative move distance has exceeded the threshold value.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for updating a customer file having a plurality of record entries, comprising:
receiving raw data corresponding to at least one event generating entity;
processing the raw data and generating at least one processed record entry;
storing a plurality of processed record entries in a universe database, each record entry being associated with a unique universe identifier (\u201cUUID\u201d);
accessing content of a customer file;
comparing the content of the customer file with the content of the universe database;
generating a matched customer file and a non-matched customer file;
assigning a unique customer number (\u201cUCID\u201d) for each record entry contained in the matched customer file and the non-matched customer file, wherein the UCID is different from the UUID, and the UCID is distributed to a single customer and the UUID is not distributed to the customer;
associating each UCID with a corresponding UUID via a conversion table; and
updating a portion of at least one record entry in the matched customer file with information contained in the processed record entry associated with the UUID corresponding to the UCID associated with the at least one record entry.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein each UUID is stable; and each UCID is stable, and the raw data is subject to change.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein a UCID is assigned to every record entry contained in the customer file regardless of whether a record entry corresponds to an existing economic entity.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the action of comparing the content of the customer file with the content of the universe database comprises organizing the record entries in the customer file per person.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the action of comparing the content of the customer file with the content of the universe database comprises using public domain identity data common to the customer file and the universe database.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the action of associating each UCID with a corresponding UUID comprises:
generating a conversion table providing a mapping between the UCID’s with a set of the UUID’s contained in the universe database.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the action of updating a portion of at least one record entry is accomplished using a batch mode.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the action of updating at least a portion of at least one record entry is accomplished via the Internet.
9. A method for updating a plurality of customer files, each customer file having a plurality of record entries, comprising:
receiving raw data corresponding to at least one event generating entity;
processing the raw data and generating at least one processed record entry;
storing a plurality of processed record entries in a universe database; each Record entry being associated with a universe identifier (\u201cUUID\u201d);
comparing content of each of the plurality of customer files with the content of the universe database;
generating a matched customer file and non-matched customer file for each of the plurality of customer files;
assigning a set of unique customer identifiers (\u201cUCID’s\u201d) for each customer file, each UCID within the set being associated with each record entry contained in the matched customer file and the non-matched customer file corresponding to the set of UCID’s wherein the UCIDs are different from the corresponding UUIDs, and the UCIDs are distributed to a single customer while the UUIDs are not distributed to the customer;
associating each UCID with a corresponding UUID via a conversion table; and
updating a portion of at least one record entry in at least one matched customer file with information contained in the processed record entry associated with the UUID corresponding to the UCID associated with the at least one record entry.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein each UUID is stable over a period of time; and each UCID is stable over another period of time.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein a UCID is assigned to every record entry contained in each of the plurality of customer files regardless of whether a record entry corresponds to an existing economic entity.
12. The method of claim 9, wherein the action of associating each UCID with a corresponding UUID comprises:
generating a conversion table for each of the plurality of customer files, each conversion file providing a mapping between the set of UCID’s assigned to the corresponding customer files with a set of the UUID’s contained in the universe database.
13. The method of claim 9, wherein the action of updating a portion of at least one record entry is accomplished using a batch mode.
14. The method of claim 9, wherein the action of updating at least a portion of at least one record entry is accomplished in near real-time via the Internet.