Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2002-12-17
2003-12-16
Von Buhr, Maria N. (Department: 2125)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
active
06665680
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to the field of database management, and in particular, to a new organizational protocol for creating and manipulating relational databases and database structures.
2. Description of Related Art
When the computer was introduced into the business mainstream, there were no database programs available. Users copied their paper files into computer memory without changing the structure of their stored data. Eventually database programs became widely available. Each program had its own set of rules for structuring databases. Users used the rules of these programs to structure data anyway they desired. Many users continued to structure data the way it was already stored in paper files. Other users used templates or procedures that were suggested by the database vendor.
Eventually database programs evolved into the relational database model. This model had specific rules for structuring data. The degree of relationality for each relational database program could be judged by determining how closely the relational database adhered to the relational database model rules. The most recent database innovation is the object oriented database model. Object oriented programming stores functions, routines, and data as reusable objects.
All of the different types of database models have tried in their own unique way to solve the same major problems that are inherent in all currently available database systems. These problems are: (1) Almost all databases are heterogeneous and cannot be automatically integrated into a single database. Reprogramming is almost always necessary to fully integrate the relationships in two or more heterogeneous databases. Since reprogramming is often too expensive or too time consuming, almost all organizations with more than one database are not operating as efficiently as possible. (2) All relationships cannot be kept on line at all times. Existing database models are limited in the number of relationships that can be kept on line at any one time. This limits the operational capacity of current databases in such areas as universal searches on all relationships.
(3) Data is often duplicated with the same data elements being stored in multiple locations. This unnecessarily increases the size of databases and hinders the search process. Searches based on one location of a data element often miss desired results because the search often misses other locations of the same data element.
The human mind does not suffer from any of these problems. The mind automatically integrates heterogeneous data and therefore subconsciously works with a single homogeneous database. Proof of this lies in the fact that programmers use their minds to reprogram multiple heterogeneous databases into a single homogeneous database. The human mind keeps all relationships on line at all times. Excepting memory deficiencies, all knowledge we have ever stored is always available simultaneously. The human mind stores all data elements only once, or if it does store the same data element more than once, it links multiple storage locations for the same data element to act as if a data element is stored only once. Otherwise, we would have to consciously search different storage locations of the same data element, and we do not do that.
SUMMARY OF THE CONVENTION
Since the human mind is the only thing known that solves these problems, the human mind provided important clues in developing the inventive arrangements taught herein. Research has shown that the human brain uses the neuron-synapse-neuron to send signals and structure relationships. When one neuron fires to a specific degree of performance across a synapse, it causes the receptor neuron to perform to a specified degree of performance. The performance of the receptor neuron varies with the varying signal that is sent across the synapse. The inventive arrangements use the neuron-synapse-neuron model for structuring relationships of all data elements in a new database structure. Accordingly, the database system taught herein is referred to as the MINDBASE data system. Databases and database structures created in accordance with the MINDBASE data system are referred to as MINDBASE databases and database structures. This unique method of data relationship structuring is not found in any other database system.
Presently available databases do not categorize data elements into specific categories with rules for storing and manipulating each type of data element. The inventive arrangements categorize all MINDBASE data elements as either tangible data elements or intangible data elements. Tangible data elements are physical data elements that have weight. Tangible data elements are defined as “cause” data elements. Intangible data elements are all other data elements. Intangible data elements are further categorized into verbs which are identified as “effect” data elements and descriptive data elements which are identified as “descriptors.”. Descriptors are used to describe tangible data elements and the degree of performance of tangible data elements.
Causes, effects, and descriptors have specific uses in the database structure and methods of the inventive arrangements, as are explained in detail herein. The unique categorization of cause, effect, and descriptive data elements and their specific uses is not followed by any other database system.
Presently available database management systems allow users to enter their data into the computer any way they choose. The inventive arrangements use a single unique format for storing all data. When using the inventive arrangements, all users enter their different data structures into this unique format. Although users can structure their data any way they choose, the computer only sees the same unique format in every database according to the inventive arrangements. This permits the MINDBASE format to be pre-programmed to accomplish many functions that must be repeatedly programmed when using other database systems. The integration routine is one of the very important functions that can be pre-programmed to automatically integrate an unlimited number of heterogeneous databases. Using MINDBASE's single unique data format for all data is not done by any other database system.
The MINDBASE format is based on the completely detailed information people have in their minds instead of the “verbal shorthand” that people generally use when speaking or writing.
FIG. 1
is a pictorial description of this process. Since most people have the same background information, verbal shorthand works well in everyday communication. When people speak or write, they assume other people have the same verbal associations of knowledge that they have. Therefore they can leave out descriptive details because they assume the listener or reader already knows and remembers the missing relationships.
An example is the statement, “I have a red Chevrolet,” The speaker is referring to a type of vehicle, which in this case is a car. The make of the car is a Chevrolet. Furthermore, the car is painted a color, which in this case is red. Since all parties have previously associated vehicle with car, car with Chevrolet, painted with color, and color with red, some of the descriptive details may be left out of the communication. Because all parties to the communication have the same background information the full meaning is conveyed.
For a computer system to simulate the way people communicate, it must have a way to store all of the descriptive details and word associations that people usually leave out of their communications. The MINDBASE system has the unique ability to store all of the possible relationships that are usually left out of verbal shorthand and all, other database systems. The MINDBASE system classifies each word as either a cause, an effect, or a descriptor. The MINDBASE system can also differentiate between multiple uses of the same word for different parts of speech. For example, some words like “book” can be a noun, verb, or an adject
Sharp Gary L.
Simon Charles K.
Simon Liane N.
Akerman & Senterfitt
Simon Liane N.
Von Buhr Maria N.
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