Patent ID: 7496573

Claim:
A method for implementing of a processing procedure on an object allocated to an object category as an instance of an object type in a computer system, comprising the steps of: parsing the object into separately processable, hierarchically classifiable sub-objects that are instances of corresponding sub-object types; processing at least some of the sub-objects with, predetermined partial processing procedures that are specific to each sub-object type, wherein attributes of the sub-objects or attributes of other sub-objects are temporarily made available during the predetermined partial processing procedures, the attributes of the other sub-objects being attributes of hierarchically higher-ranking sub-objects; processing results obtained from processing the sub-objects and combining the results using a functional relationship in a processing procedure of a higher rank than the predetermined partial processing procedures; and deriving an object-specific processing result from the processing procedure, wherein the object and the sub-objects of the object are instantiated in one or more databanks of the computer system and are stored in one or more hierarchically classified directories specific to the object type or sub-object type, and further wherein the directory or directories are in each case structured such that a mask of the directory or directories is not specific to the object or one of the sub-objects.