Patent 7634482 was granted and assigned to Global IDs on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method for associating data objects utilizing unique identifiers is provided. Data objects are modeled utilizing a data object ontology. Unique identifiers for instances of each data object are calculated utilizing a selection of unique attributes of the data object ontology. Data objects from multiple data sources can be integrated utilizing the unique identifiers for each data object.