Patent ID: 6163781
Filing Date: 2000-12-19
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A data processing system, comprising: a computer-readable memory for storing a single definitional data table for defining variable symbols representing respective measurable physical phenomena by relating said symbols with respective data domains for the respective phenomena represented by said symbols, wherein each said variable symbol being defined in a row of said definitional data table; a comparator for signaling existence of a match condition if both a symbolic description in an object instance describing at least one measured phenomenon matches one of said variable symbols in said table and an actual value, also in said object instance, of said at least one measured phenomenon conforms to one respective data domain defining said one variable symbol in said table; and an object-to-relational data converter for mapping attributes of said object instance into two relational tables stored in said memory, if said match condition is signaled by said comparator, one of said relational tables being an observation table and the other of said relational tables being a measured value table, said converter mapping said symbolic description from the object instance into said observation table in association with a unique identification number for the object instance, said converter also mapping said actual value into said measured value table in association with said unique identification number, wherein each instance of said attributes of said object instance being mapped into a row of said observation table or said measured value table.