Patent ID: 6920458

Claim:
A model repository system, comprising: a data store for storing a plurality of data records; a data mining application for analyzing the data records and for generating a plurality of data models; and a model repository for storing the generated data models, wherein the model repository includes one or more index structures containing a plurality of attributes associated with the data models; wherein the data models are predictive data models; wherein the predictive data models are the entities being indexed by the one or more index structures such that the attributes of the predictive data models are stored within the one or more indexes; a model repository facility for exporting the generated data models to the model repository; at least three configuration files stored in the model repository, wherein a first configuration file stores information that is used by the model repository facility in exporting the generated data models to the model repository, and second and third configuration files store information that is used by the model repository system in building the main index in the model repository from attributes supplied by human end users and from the data mining application.