The invention provides for employing a complex data structure to optimize
the retrieval of data over a network. The complex data structure includes
two separate sub-data structures (Trie and List) that separately
reference the same data objects in a data store. The Trie sub-data
structure is used to fulfill a single data object request. The List
sub-data structure is employed with function requests related to several
data objects. Each data object is associated with a parent object that
includes a list of every reference to the data object in both the Trie
and List sub-data structures. A collector object is a type of data object
that is associated with a member object and which includes a list of
other related data/collector objects. When data associated with the
collector object is requested, other data associated with the other
data/collector objects on the member object list are automatically
retrieved.