UNIVERSAL INFORMATION WAREHOUSE SYSTEM AND METHOD
First Claim
1. An information warehouse including a plurality of computer databases stored in a computer readable medium, said computer readable medium comprising:
- a plurality of informational tables configured to store informational elements including a directory element; and
a plurality of relational tables configured to store relationship links between pairs of informational elements stored in the informational tables, including a relationship link to said directory element from each additional informational element in said informational tables, associate attributes to particular relational links, and store values for said attributes.
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Abstract
The present invention, the Information Warehouse, is a method and apparatus for gathering, storing and organizing information related to all the aspects of any organization, using a novel classification system. The Information warehouse contains one or more information bases. Each Information base is a specially configured database. Each information base consists of thirteen tables containing specially defined and structured records. Seven tables contain information elements classified into seven categories. Three tables contain the information needed by the Relationships manager. Three tables contain information needed by the Transactions managers. The present invention allows for users to input information about the constituents of an organization and their activities into the information base. This populating of the information base can be done in two ways. Manually by direct input via data entry interfaces of this invention and via data feeds or input files converted by the conversion modules of this invention. The present invention also allows users to retrieve information from the information base using search techniques
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1. An information warehouse including a plurality of computer databases stored in a computer readable medium, said computer readable medium comprising:
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a plurality of informational tables configured to store informational elements including a directory element; and
a plurality of relational tables configured to store relationship links between pairs of informational elements stored in the informational tables, including a relationship link to said directory element from each additional informational element in said informational tables, associate attributes to particular relational links, and store values for said attributes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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28. An informational directory including a plurality of computer database tables stored in a computer readable medium, each said table configured to store data as a plurality of records, each record having an ID field for storing a value uniquely identifying that respective record in a particular informational table, said computer readable medium comprising:
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a plurality of informational tables configured to store informational elements including a directory element; and
a plurality of relational tables configured to store relationship links between pairs of informational elements stored in the informational tables, including a relationship link to said directory element from each additional informational element in said informational tables, associate attributes to particular relational links, and store values for said attributes.
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37. A method of storing data in an informational directory including at least one informational table configured to store informational elements including a directory element and at least one relational table configured to store relationship links between pairs of informational elements stored in the informational tables, the method comprising the steps of:
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storing data representing at least one informational element in the at least the informational table; and
storing data representing a default relationship link between each informational element and the directory element in one or more of the at least one relational tables.
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