Systems and methods for extensions and inheritance for units of information manageable by a hardware/software interface system

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Embodiments disclosed herein pertain to a method a system and a , computer-readable medium for organizing and querying a plurality of Items including discrete , storable units of information that are manipulated by a hardware/software interface system. , The Items have a data type and structure defined by a type schema. The plurality of Items , includes a first Relationship relating a first Item and a second Item. A third Item is created, wherein the third Item is a subtyped instance of the first Item. For each of a first plurality of , subtyped instances of the first Item each of the first plurality of subtyped instances , automatically inherits from the first Item a Relationship …