Patent ID: 7636882

Claim:
A method for creating a recursive scalable template instance (RSTI) in a multi-dimensional electronic data table having a first data table dimension (D 1 ) and a second data table dimension (D 2 ), said method comprising: selecting a recursive scalable template (RST) associated with the RSTI such that the RSTI is to be structured in accordance with the RST; a processor of a computer system creating, in a memory of the computer system, a plurality of contiguous recursive element instances (REIs) of the RSTI, said REIs ordered and aligned along the dimension D 1 , at least two REIs having a different size along the dimension D 1 , each REI having a same size along the dimension D 2 , each REI comprising at least one scalable template instance (STI), said creating comprising structuring each REI according to a recursive element (RE) defined for the RST such that the RE includes at least one scalable template (ST), said creating comprising instancing each ST of the RE to generate an associated scalable template instance (STI) of an REI of the plurality of REIs; aligning a first dimension and a second dimension of each STI of each REI along the dimension D 1 and along the dimension D 2 , respectively, wherein the RST comprises a header part and/or a footer part, the header part and/or the footer part of the RST comprising at least one recursive meta-elements (RME), wherein each RME comprises at least one ST; and generating a header part and/or a footer part of the RSTI, wherein the header part and/or the footer part of the RSTI corresponds to the header part and/or the footer part of the RST, wherein the header part and/or the footer part of the RSTI comprises at least one REI of the plurality of REIs of the RSTI.