Patent ID: 7814123

Claim:
A method comprising: associating, by a processor, a first member of a plurality of members of a component with point data; associating, by the processor, a second member of the plurality of members of the component with non-point data, wherein the non-point data provides context for the point data; associating, by the processor, a first tag attribute with the first member; associating, by the processor, a second tag attribute with the second member; receiving, by the processor, an instruction to access data associated with the first member of the component; in response to the instruction to access data associated with the first member of the component, determining, by the processor, whether the first member of the component is associated with a tag attribute, said determining whether the first member of the component is associated with a tag attribute resulting in a determination that the first member of the component is associated with a tag attribute; and in response to the determination that the first member of the component is associated with a tag attribute, issuing, by the processor, a query that is for data associated with the first member of the component, data associated with the second member of the component and data associated with each other member of the component that is associated with a tag attribute; wherein the first member is not a member of the second member; and wherein the second member is not a member of the first member.