Patent ID: 8321390

Claim:
A method for organizing data in storage media, the method comprising: linking first data in the storage media to at least one first identifier in a first table in the storage media, wherein the first data comprises at least one key-value pair including at least a key entity indicating a type of data and a data value of the type of data that is associated with the key entity, and the at least one first identifier is an identifier associated with a corresponding at least one data pair, and the first table is configured to store a plurality of key-value pairs having key entities with different types of data among the plurality of key-value pairs; and associating a set having a corresponding second identifier with the at least one first identifier, wherein the set includes at least the first data; and augmenting data in the storage media with augment data when such augment data is to be added to data in the storage media, the augmenting including: linking the augment data to at least one further identifier within the storage media; and associating all first identifiers corresponding to a largest set of second identifiers associated with data to be augmented and the at least one further first identifier to at least one further second identifier.