Patent ID: 8260804

Claim:
A data management system for managing a plurality of objects, the system comprising: a computing device that has at least one processing unit that executes a data management system; at least one storage unit that is coupled to the computing device; the at least one storage unit comprises one or more cells, each cell having an object container wherein each object container is capable of containing a plurality of types of items, one or more connection elements within each cell such that each connection is one of between items in the same cell and items in different cells and each connection indicates an association between the items, a tag element within items of each cell that denote tags that are associated with each item wherein the tags indicate a context of the item so that the item is searchable based on the tag and the object container contains one or more pieces of information linked with the object container wherein the one or more pieces of information are stored in a native XML format; and wherein each piece of information in each object container is based on an abstract base type object having one or more general characteristics elements of an object including an ItemID element that specifies a unique item identifier and a KindID element that specifies a unique identifier that identifies a type of the content and one or more semantic property elements, and a plurality of base components, each base component being a child of the abstract base type object and inheriting the one or more general characteristics and one or more semantic properties, each base component being a container item kind that describes a type of object and encapsulates the particular type of object wherein each type of object associated with the system is represented by the abstract base type object and one of the base components.