Patent Document ID: 8005866
Application ID: 11867156

Base Claim:
1. A database system, comprising a computer having at least one processor; a non-relational transactional and analytical database executing on said processor, said database having at least two neurons, wherein one of said neurons is classified as a meme that is identified by at least one name, said name being termed as an alias, and the other said neuron is classified as a link, said link representing a logical three-way relationship between any three neurons in the database, and wherein said meme and said link are identified in terms of identifiers belonging to an arbitrary system of unique identification; and further wherein the database is operated through an application program interface (API); wherein each of said memes references a file of binary data stored with name equal to the identifier of said meme, file system metadata related to the file is stored within the meme and actual data of the file is stored on the underlying file-system.

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Claim 10:
10. The database system of claim 1 , wherein said database further contains a query engine to which queries are submitted, said queries being either a meme query (Q m ), or a link query (Q l ), said meme query further being in the form of either an identifier of a meme, or an alias or a partial alias optionally containing wildcards; wherein said link query, Q l , is a triplet comprising Q S , Q V , Q O , each of the elements of the triplet being either a meme query or nested link query, and wherein each one of the elements represents the subject, verb and object, respectively, in the link being submitted as the query.