Patent ID: 8171006

Claim:
A method for retrieving stored data, comprising: receiving a retrieval request for an object; and generating a retrieval response that includes: a set of searchable attributes associated with the object, wherein an attribute of the set of searchable attributes is stored in a database in a manner that enables a database query to be performed against the attribute of the set of searchable attributes; and a set of non-searchable attributes associated with the object, wherein an attribute of the set of non-searchable attributes is stored in the database in a manner that does not enable a database query to be performed against the attribute of the set of a non-searchable attributes, wherein the set of non-searchable attributes is stored in one or more database cells of the database, wherein each database cell of the one or more database cells stores more than one attribute of the set of non-searchable attributes, and wherein each database cell comprises a cell that is not further divided into multiple rows or multiple columns of a table of the database, wherein the set of searchable attributes associated with the object is stored in a first database table corresponding to the object and the set of non-searchable attributes associated with the object is stored in a second database table, and wherein the first database table and the second database table are different, and wherein the second database table is accessed before the first database table.