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Information mart system and information mart browser

  • US 6,604,108 B1
  • Filed: 06/04/1999
  • Issued: 08/05/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for managing information in a pharmaceutical product testing enterprise, comprising:

  • a logical index associating system content file identifiers with predefined source data, with predefined source data processing rules, with subjects of a predefined subject hierarchy that includes a subject corresponding to each substance, product, protocol, and investigator of the pharmaceutical product testing enterprise, and with predefined relational attributes applied to all subjects of the hierarchy and selected from the group consisting of financial, project, and executive relational attributes;

    a content file creation facility for generating system content files by obtaining source data associated with a content file identifier from remote electronic storage facilities and processing the source data in accordance with the predefined source data processing rules associated with the content file identifier to generate the content file;

    a file server facility for providing content files in response to content file queries from a browser specifying a subject of the predefined subject hierarchy and relational attribute of the set of predefined relational attributes; and

    a browser comprising;

    a relational attribute navigation tool for receiving user input specifying a relational attribute of the set of predefined relational attributes that characterizes desired information;

    a subject hierarchy navigation tool for receiving user input specifying a subject of the predefined subject hierarchy that characterizes desired information; and

    multiple file display facilities for concurrently issuing content file queries to the server facility comprising a specified relational attribute and a specified subject, and for concurrently displaying content files provide by the server facility in a graphical user interface.

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