Patent ID: 7092969
Filing Date: 2006-08-15
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A data management system, comprising: a source image data (SID) database containing at least one source image data (SlD) set; a processing engine adapted perform a first process to apply a sequence of one or more computationally deterministic transformations to the SID set to produce at least one derivative image data (DID) set, to generate an identifier associated with the produced DID set, and to embed the associated identifier within each produced DID set; a derivative image data (DID) database containing a record of the sequence of transformations for each DID set and all parameters describing each of the transformations; wherein the embedded identifier comprises means for locating the stored SID set at the DID database and means for retrieving the sequence of transformations and all the parameters describing each of the transformations from the DID database; and a second process adapted to use the embedded identifier to retrieve the SID set and the transformation sequence stored in the DID database and reinitiate the first process to generate additional DID for the DID set; wherein the SID set used in the reinitiated process comprises any of the original SID set and at least one alternate version of the original SID set; and wherein each of the one or more computationally deterministic transformations used in the transformation sequence applied to the SID set in the reinitiated process comprises any of the corresponding original computationally deterministic transformations and at least one alternate version of the corresponding original computationally deterministic transformations.