METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EDITING DATA BY LIMITING CURRENT OPERATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PREVIOUS OPERATIONS

Disclosed herein is a data edition supporting method in an information processing system having a computer, interactive terminals and a clock. The method comprises the steps of finding from the clock the time at which a data item was edited; of storing the obtained time in relation to its corresponding data item; of checking to see whether, during data editing by use of an interactive terminal, the data editing time comes before or after a certain time; and of determining the type of editing in accordance with the results of the judgment made in the preceding step.