Patent Document ID: 8260770
Application ID: 12234595

Base Claim:
1. A method for editing data from a query result comprising data from a plurality of fields contained in a plurality of individual files each assigned with a unique identifier wherein a configuration file specifies the plurality of fields contained in the individual files and the plurality of individual files populate a collection of individual files having a unique collection identifier, comprising: requesting a query result using the unique collection identifier for a collection of individual files and a unique identifier for a configuration file, the configuration file specifies a data structure for the query result; generating the query result containing a plurality of fields specified by the configuration file by combining each of the plurality of individual files associated with a unique identifier for a collection of individual files such that the data of each individual file is differentiated by the unique identifier corresponding to the individual file from which the data originated in the query result; displaying the data of the query result with a plurality of labels specified in the configuration file that describe the data of the query result, wherein a layout and format of the query result is determined based on display control variables specified in the configuration file, which specifies a plurality of fields to display in a predefined layout with the plurality of labels; submitting an edit request of at least one file comprised of at least one field in the configuration file and at least one unique identifier corresponding to an individual file in the query result; retrieving at least one individual file corresponding to the unique identifier of the edit request in the query result; updating the fields contained in the individual file corresponding to the at least one unique identifier of the edit request of at least one file in the query result; and writing the updated individual file to the corresponding collection of individual files, wherein the configuration file comprises: the unique identifier for the configuration file; the plurality of fields, which correspond to fields of the plurality of individual files; the plurality of display control variables for controlling the display of information of the individual file with the plurality of labels, and a plurality of data types for defining the type of data permitted for each field.

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Claim 10:
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising a means for writing the collection of individual files to the server once the individual files have been updated.