Data management systems and methods including creation of composite views of data

Patent 5555409 Issued on September 10, 1996. Estimated Expiration Date:

April 11, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Abstract Claims Description Full Text

Patent References

Computer driven systems and methods for managing data which use two generic data elements and a single ordered file
Patent #: 5303367
Issued on: 04/12/1994
Inventor: Leenstra, Sr., et al.

Data storage system with set lists which contain elements associated with parents for defining a logical hierarchy and general record pointers identifying specific data sets Patent #: 5454101
Issued on: 09/26/1995
Inventor: Mackay, et al.

Inventors

Assignee

Applied Technical Sysytem, Inc.

Application

No. 226071 filed on 04/11/1994

US Classes:

707/101Manipulating data structure (e.g., compression, compaction, compilation)

Examiners

Primary: Kulik, Paul V.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Hughes, Multer & Schacht

International Class

G06F 015/40

Abstract

Computer-based systems and methods for managing data. These systems and methods take advantage of a unique model which: increases speed and flexibility; eliminates the need for a complex data manipulation language, data or application dependent software, and separate structuring tools such as pointers, lists, and indexes; and automatically creates among the data relationships which may or may not have been apparent to a user or the designer. Salient, unique features of the systems and methods are their capabilities for: efficiently creating a composite view of the data; importing data from and exporting data to external databases; and otherwise providing significant and advantageous, additional control over the creation, maintenance, and display of the data making up a database constructed in according with the principles described in parent application Ser. No. 07/621,834 filed 4 Dec. 1990.

Other References

European Patent Application, Publication No. 0270360, Jun. 8, 1988, Tektronix, Inc
PCT International Application, International Publication No. WO89/09972, Oct. 19, 1989, Digital Equipment Corporation
Tremblay, Jean-Paul et al., "An Introduction to Data Structures with Applications,"2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1984, pp. 811-82