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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1999
Paul S. Odom, Houston, TX (US);
Michael J. Massey, Houston, TX (US);
Pliant Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention simplifies the data modeling process and enables its full dynamic versioning by employing a non-hierarchical non-integrated structure to the organization of information. This is achieved by expressing data modeling, storage and transfer in a particular non-hierarchical, non-integrated neutral form. The neutral form of the present invention enables complete parallel processing of both data storage and data transfer operations. It also enables the direct integration of separate but related data models and their data without remodeling or reloading. Finally, the present invention enables direct transfer of neutral form information in a manner that includes all of the properties required to independently understand and interpret each transferred data value.