Patent Document ID: 7822784
Application ID: 11283982
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer related article of manufacture comprising: a non-transitory computer readable medium having a storage tree for storing a data universe of data cells to assist in the searching for particular data cells, where each data cell has four fields, namely an instance identifier field, an entity type field, an attribute type field, and an attribute value field, the storage tree comprising a) a first level of first entry values, the first entry values being composed of all of the unique values found in a first field of the data cells; b) at least one second level of second entry values, with a separate second level associated with each first entry value in the first level, with the second entry values in each second level being composed of all of the unique values found in a second field of all data cells that have the associated first entry value in their first field; c) at least one third level of third entry values, with a separate third level associated with each second entry value in each of the second levels, with the third entry values in each third level being composed of all of the unique values found in a third field of all data cells that have the associated first entry value in their first field and the associated second entry value in their second field; and d) at least one fourth level of fourth values, with a separate fourth level associated with each third entry value in each of the third levels, with the fourth entry values in each fourth level being composed of all of the unique values found in a fourth field of all data cells that have the associated first entry value in their first field, the associated second entry value in their second field, and the associated third entry value in their third field.