US Patent No: 5,392,220

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Method and system for organizing data

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Abstract

The invention describes the organizing and accessing of data pertaining to an engineering process. The process is partitioned into subprocess which are linked in a directed-acyclic-graph. Each link has a source node and a destination node, indicating which source node(s) must have been executed to provide the data necessary for executing the destination nodes. Executing any subprocess provides an instance of data associated to that node. The latter instances are linked in a second directed-acyclic-graph wherein each link indicates that part or all of the data at the source node has effectively been used for generating the data at its destination node. The two graphs are interlinked and provide for easy browsing of the data as well as for easy selection of input data for engineering subprocesses.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
U.S. PHILIPS CORPORATIONNEW YORK, NY11382

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Treffers, Menno A Eindhoven, NL 3 86
Van, Den Hamer Peter - 15 87

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