Overview of IO Informatics US Patent #6,988,109
Data structuring object and algorithms
Object-oriented multi-parametric normalization algorithms efficiently make distributed, multi-method data comparable. This makes it possible to gather "actionable" knowledge by associating, comparing, and defining relationships between previously incomparable data.

The company’s VSS (vector subset selection) algorithm allows users to define and access proper subsets within any dataset - without programming. Together with normalization methods, this allows users to select any data or subset of data for user-driven or automated and iterative analysis, transformation, and comparison.

Methods for handling ontologies, including ontology import, semantic web capability (RDF, OWL, GO, DAML, etc) are also described. Additional "semantic web" oriented methods are defined for relationship detection, dimension reduction and learning functions. These are made possible through the interaction of IO Informatics' use of object ontologies, interacting with proprietary subset-based data structuring methods, query automation, results training and weighted results linking.

Human / computer interaction
Point-and-click / WYSIWG data structuring methods allow users to "point" to select subsets of data to select, transform, and compare previously undefined data.

Sentient takes previously incompatible data into a common framework that allows users to interact directly with the data. Data associations are made easily.

This gives end users convenient, unified access to previously disconnected data, with the ability to define data fields and to detect and define associations and relationships – in a "point and click" manner - without programming.

Additional disclosure includes the description of mobile / virtual data record, distributed database functions. This supports the distribution of objects with auditing, byte-level security, and reporting and database functionality. User-interactive curation methods support promotion and distribution of ontologies, as well as methods to define workspaces and links as database fields, and to weigh links between objects – without programming.

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