Patent Document ID: 7730099
Application ID: 11506665
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: defining, by a network modeling system, each component of a plurality of components in a hierarchy using a component class that includes a composite class and leaf class, wherein the composite class is configured to include, as required, children component classes, defining, by the network modeling system, a unique identifier of each component, forming a plurality of component identifiers, creating, by the network modeling system, a Binary Large Object (BLOB) as a single serial string of bytes that includes a representation of a schema and data corresponding to each component at a unique location in the Binary Large Object corresponding to the component, associating, by the network modeling system, the unique location in the Binary Large Object with the unique identifier of each component, and storing, by the network modeling system, the Binary Large Object, and storing, by the network modeling system, the component identifier, the unique location of each component, and a size of the component, wherein the size corresponds to a memory requirement to store an entirety of the component based on the schema, including the data corresponding to the leaf class and each of the children component classes, if any, to facilitate the select retrieval of each component.