Patent ID: 8447786

Claim:
A method for processing a graph structure, comprising: providing a graph as a set of triples, each triple having a resource description framework (RDF) subject node, an RDF predicate, and an RDF object node, the predicate defining a relationship between a the respective RDF subject node and the RDF object node; and providing a set of language extensions to at least one of a script language and an object oriented language that provide native access to the graph in the extended language, where said language extensions process one of more triples in the set of triples according to one or more attributes of each triple in the set of triples to permit accessing, querying, creating, and updating triples on the graph using at least one of constructors, access functions, and comparison operators to natively handle RDF data, wherein said processing includes applying a query to the set of triples, specified in RDF, that includes a path subquery and a filter subquery.