Patent ID: 8078648

Claim:
One or more computer-storage media having stored thereon a data structure, comprising: a header section comprising a first portion for one or more predefined data and an auxiliary portion for one or more user-defined data, and a body section comprising a data set, wherein the data structure includes one or more error identifier fields utilized to verify data integrity, and one or more bracket pairs indicating data format integrity and supporting data structure extensibility, wherein the one or more bracket pairs include an open-end bracket and a close-end bracket, and wherein the open-end bracket references the close-end bracket such that the data structure is verified, and wherein the data structure supports a single access operation accessing each of the one or more predefined data, the one or more user-defined data, the data set, and information associated with data structure verification, data integrity verification, or data extensibility, the single access operation being an action including each of writing the data structure to a memory, verifying the data structure, and verifying the integrity of data of the data structure.