Patent ID: 8117234

Claim:
A system for storage of electronic records comprising: a first storage unit to store non-exception based records, wherein said non-exception based records are generated from processes complying with predefined conditions; a second storage unit to store exception based records, wherein said exception based records are generated from processes that are non-compliant with said predefined conditions; and a processing system to store and retrieve records from said first and second storage units, said processing system including: a data manager module to receive non-exception and exception based records and to store said received non-exception based records in said first storage unit by storing unique information from each received non-exception based record within said first storage unit separately from information common to a plurality of non-exception based records and linking said stored unique information with said stored common information, wherein said first storage unit includes a plurality of template record objects each containing said information common to a plurality of non-exception based records and a record information object for each said template record object to link unique record information to that template record object, and wherein said data manager module includes: an exception module to store information of each exception based record within said second storage unit; an extraction module to extract said unique information from each received non-exception based record and produce a unique record object with said extracted information and an identifier uniquely identifying said produced unique record object; and a link module to place said identifier within said record information object associated with a corresponding template record object to link said unique information of said received non-exception based record with corresponding common information of that record.