Patent Document ID: 8595175
Application ID: 13179601

Base Claim:
1. A computer system comprising: a logical processor; a memory in operable communication with the logical processor; an object-relational mapping session residing in the memory; a mapped persistence ignorant object residing in the memory and having at least one state as part of the session; a fluent interface residing in the memory; and a developer code containing an API Pattern and residing in the memory, which upon execution of the developer code manipulates the mapped persistence ignorant object using calls to the fluent interface in the API Pattern.

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Claim 5:
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein multiple persistable objects reside in the memory and are related to one another by references, thereby forming a graph, and wherein the API Pattern is an incremental-graph-load API Pattern, namely, an API Pattern which specifies incrementally loading portions of the graph into volatile memory.