Patent Document ID: 20060085457
Application ID: 11283982
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A data collection comprising: a) a plurality of data cells, each data cell having an instance identifier field, an entity type field, an attribute type field, and an attribute value field; b) a plurality of cell sets, each cell set having a plurality of cells containing the same values in their instance identifier field and entity type field; c) a multiple attribute value cell set composed of a plurality of cells containing different values in their attribute value fields; d) a specific instance cell set describing real world attributes of a specific instance of a specific type of entity, the specific instance cell set containing a first cell, the first cell having a specific attribute type in its attribute type field and further having a pointer to the multiple attribute value cell; whereas the first cell and multiple attribute value cell set are interpreted to indicated that the specific instance of the specific type of entity has multiple values for the specific attribute type, those multiple values being equal to the different values found in the attribute value fields of the cells in the multiple attribute value cell set.