Patent ID: 6988109

Claim:
A computer-implemented informatics system for data structuring via data structuring objects executed by a computer, wherein a data structuring object includes a presentation interface, program code executable by a computer to structure data, program code executable by a computer to query data using a graphical interface, wherein the querying is done on raw data, the informatics system comprising: an object handler for supporting the data structuring objects; a generator for generating a data structuring object to be associated wit the raw data; at least one description data structure within the data structuring object, wherein a description data structure describes the raw data associated with the data structuring object; at least one subset vector within the data structuring object, wherein a subset vector describes a proper subset of the associated raw data and wherein at least one subset vector is user-defined, thereby allowing for structuring data in the context of raw data without requiring restructuring of the data or programming; and an object translation engine for generating definition tables usable for translating data structuring objects into a presentation form.