Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for a network operating system. The system includes a complex data medium that enables the continuous reconciliation of the collaborative information process and product. The system generally increases productivity by enabling a network dynamic among knowledge workers. The system unifies e-mail and shared file management, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, serial and parallel work flow, top-down and bottom-up collaboration, and information lifecycle management.

Abstract: In a computer environment, a system and method is described that generally provides for creation of a distributed graph database, creation and deployment of nodes in a distributed graph database system, and integration of nodes into a set of distributed graph databases that include data nodes and edges that are: entities built using forms, relations, and relationships; immutable but evolvable through the addition of new data nodes or new edges joining the evolving data node to another data node; shareable and mergeable.

Abstract: In a computer environment, a mechanism for the flow of access by means of derivation is provided. Typically, access rights granted with respect to an access point flow (or derive from) an access provider to an access recipient. Typically, the access provider is a function and the access recipient is a function. The access point may be any object, such as files or functions, to which the access recipient is granted access rights by the access provider. Access is typically represented by a relationship object referencing the access provider function, the access recipient function, and the access point object, and a set of access rights. There are typically different types of access, including read access, right access, and membership access. Therefore, the membership access relationship is typically represented as a subtype of the general/abstract access relationship.

Abstract: In various aspects, a system and method for the structuring and interpretation of organic computer programs may provide for programs to expand, grow and evolve after initiation in a manner that may be analogous to the way plants, animals, and organisms in nature that grow and evolve over time after their building blocks are assembled. The organic computing system and method may unify program design time and program run time, may provide for program structure and program state to change at run time, and may provide for programs to continuously change and evolve through the addition of member functions, inputs, and outputs as the program is running. The organic computing system provide for different interpreters on different graph databases to participate as functions in an integrated computer program distributed across a graphnet so that the program may evolve differentially over time.

Abstract: A computational platform and related methods that generally combines the object model and the programming model into a single set of constructs (e.g. Forms, relations, entities, relationships). These constructs provide the characteristics of inheritance, linkage, immutability, versioning, and substitution in a single structure that can store the objects, processes, and instructions/programs, and provide for convergence and divergence of information in information streams, a database graph, or a database web distributed across a set of nodes.

Abstract: In a computer environment, a mechanism for the flow of access by means of derivation is provided. Typically, access rights granted with respect to an access point flow (or derive from) an access provider to an access recipient. Typically, the access provider is a function and the access recipient is a function. The access point may be any object, such as files or functions, to which the access recipient is granted access rights by the access provider. Access is typically represented by a relationship object referencing the access provider function, the access recipient function, and the access point object, and a set of access rights. There are typically different types of access, including read access, right access, and membership access. Therefore, the membership access relationship is typically represented as a subtype of the general/abstract access relationship.

Abstract: In a computer environment, a system and method is described that generally provides for creation of a distributed graph database, creation and deployment of nodes in a distributed graph database system, and integration of nodes into a set of distributed graph databases that include data nodes and edges that are: entities built using forms, relations, and relationships; immutable but evolvable through the addition of new data nodes or new edges joining the evolving data node to another data node; shareable and mergeable.

Abstract: A mechanism for the flow of access by derivation is provided. An access point may be any object, such as files or functions, to which the access recipient is granted access rights by the access provider. Access is typically represented by a relationship object referencing the access provider function, the access recipient function, and the access point object, and a set of access rights. This membership access relationship object is typically represented as a subtype of the access relationship. When a membership access relationship is created, typically a new associated persona function is generated, representing the new identity created for the access recipient function while serving as a member of the access point function. When a persona function is invited to be a member in another function, that in turn generates a membership and a second persona that is derived from the first persona, resulting in identity derivation.

Abstract: In a computer environment, a system and method is described that generally provides for creation of a distributed graph database, creation and deployment of nodes in a distributed graph database system, and integration of nodes into a set of distributed graph databases that include data nodes and edges that are: entities built using forms, relations, and relationships; immutable but evolvable through the addition of new data nodes or new edges joining the evolving data node to another data node; shareable and mergeable.