System and method for managing collections of data on a network

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2007-12-11

2007-12-11

Mofiz, Apu (Department: 2161)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

Reexamination Certificate

active

10357304

ABSTRACT:
The present invention enables the creation, management, retrieval, distribution and massively large collections of information that can be shared across a distributed network without building absolute references or even pre-existing knowledge of the data and data structures being stored in such an environment. The system includes the following components: (1) a ‘flat’ data model wherein arbitrarily complex structures can be instantiated within a single memory allocation (including both the aggregation arrangements and the data itself, as well as any cross references between them via ‘relative’ references); (2) a run-time type system capable of defining and accessing binary strongly-typed data; (3) a set of ‘containers’ within which information encoded according to the system can be physically stored and preferably include a memory resident form, a file-based form, and a server-based form; (4) a client-server environment that is tied to the types system and capable of interpreting and executing all necessary collection manipulations remotely; (5) a basic aggregation structure providing as a minimum a ‘parent’, ‘nextChild’, ‘previousChild’, ‘firstChild’, and ‘lastChild’ links or equivalents; and (6) a data attachment structure (whose size may vary) to which strongly typed data can be attached and which is associated in some manner with (and possibly identical to) a containing aggregation node in the collection. Additional extensions and modifications to the system are also specified herein.

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