Patent Document ID: 5418942
Application ID: 07376123

Base Claim:
1. An information storage system which is connectable to an input interface means and an output interface means, the information storage system comprising a computer, the computer having a memory, the memory of the computer having a plurality of nodes stored therein, each node having a unique identifier within the memory, the memory of the computer including means defining pointers between pairs of said nodes, the pointers comprising only identifiers of other nodes, the pointers having been assigned by the input interface means in response to transmission of input data to the input interface means by a user, wherein each node contains no application data elements other than pointers, wherein information to be stored is stored only as a pattern of said pointers, and wherein said stored pattern is convertible by the output interface means into data recognizable by the user.

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Claim 9:
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the information is arranged in a plurality of boxes, wherein a box may be connected to other boxes, wherein a given box may be assigned one or more "child boxes", the computer being programmed to display the contents of a single given box, the computer being further programmed to display the child boxes of a given box, the computer being programmed to continue to display, when requested by a user, the child boxes, if any, of the box being currently displayed.