Abstract: The invention relates to a method for passing information between different applications running on one or more computers comprising the following steps:

Abstract: A method of operating a plurality of electronic databases which can be accessed simultaneously by a user, said databases each comprising a search facility for records of the database, is characterized by providing one or more links from at least some data records of a first database to one or more records of at least a second database, performing a search in at least said first database and executing at least one of said links from at least one of the records forming the result of said search.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of management of data in a computer system. The invention proposes a new way of automatically ordering data and arranging them in a data structure in a computer. The invention employs the distance as a measure of similarity between data sets. Data sets are assigned to a structure of clusters depending on whether they have a distance above or below a limiting value that is correlated with a peak in the density of distance values.