US Patent 7603371 Object based system and method for managing information

One embodiment of the present invention provides a software product comprising a set of computer instructions stored on a computer readable medium. The computer instructions can be executable by a computer processor to maintain a profile object representing profile data, the profile object comprising, receive a first command based on the profile object to access an attribute value access the attribute value. The profile object can include at least one profile section that acts as a container for attributes and at least one attribute for each profile section. The attributes can essentially be variables having a name and a value.