The various embodiments of the invention provide a data processing system and method, for applications such as marketing campaign management, speech recognition and signal processing. An exemplary system embodiment includes a first data repository adapted to store a plurality of entity and attribute...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US20060271568?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20060271568 - Distributed and interactive database architecture for parallel and asynchronous data processing of complex data and for real-time query processing