Patent ID: 7599942

Claim:
A method for managing information comprising: forming a meta data structure containing first information for: providing a user interface, determining features for the user interface, and determining the contents of a profile; forming an application data structure containing second information for: maintaining user application information, storing user application information, and driving an engine to generate the profile as an application; and establishing associations between the meta data structure and the application data structure wherein the first information has the second information associated therewith to form and display a profiler; and wherein: forming the meta data structure includes forming master list structures having: a field type structure having: a list of field types available to a user, a text field, a date field, and a mask edit field; a property type structure having: a list of properties for a field, a list of values for a field, Boolean logic, and a new value entry; a property structure having: valid properties and a master list of all properties available in the profiler; and a field type property structure.