Unisys Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ronald Jay Neubauer

Paul Donald Koerber

James Albert Fontana

Donald Edward Baisley

Douglas Marshall Tolbert

Russel Elliot Cole

Ted Franklin Gladieux

Viraj Byakod

An embodiment of the present invention is a method for generating a logical model of objects from a representation of linguistic concepts. Packages of elements representing rule specifications expressed with linguistic concepts are received as input. The packages comprise at least one of the following: terms, names, sentence forms, mathematical function forms, nominal restrictive forms, identity criteria, and expressions. The packages are processed to generate a logical model of objects.

Generating a logical model of objects from a representation of linguistic concepts for use in software model generation

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method to establish and maintain response time goals for selected business logic contained in components, which results in chosen high priority methods that respond consistently under load, enable smoother server side resource utilization, and increased scalability. The analyzing and delaying of certain processes in order to expedite processing of more important business processes helps establish optimization of multiple business processes.

System and method for maintaining target response times in business methods

A method in a computer system executing a repository program for dynamically linking two objects in two different models within the repository. The method includes the steps of receiving object identifiers of each of the two objects and an association name from a computer program using the method. The association name is then used to extract a namespace object from the repository program, wherein the namespace object is a part of the repository program for containing association names. Next, a determination is made as to whether or not an association already exists between either one of the two objects and the namespace object. If it is determined that no association exists, then the association name of a first of the two objects and the namespace are changed to an object identifier of a second of the two objects. Finally, the association name of the second of the two objects and the namespace are changed to an object identifier of the first of the two objects.

Method for dynamically linking two objects in two different models

The method of the present invention defines a method in a computer system having a user interface, a memory, a repository and a database, and a repository program operating in the computer system for generically manipulating properties of objects stored in the repository. The program executes a method comprising the steps of determining if the current value of the property is known, and if not; determining if the current value of the property is needed, and if so; calling getProperty to retrieve the current value of the property; determining if the value of the property is to be changed, and if so; calling setProperty to alter the value of the property.

Method for generically manipulating properties of objects in an object

The method of the present invention is useful in a computer system having a user interface, a memory, a repository and a database. The method is a repository program executed by the computer system for locating a versioned object within a history of objects stored in the repository. The method comprises the steps of declaring a variable workObject; if the desired variant is equal to the variant of object on which the requesting step is called, setting the workObject to said object; if the desired variant is not equal to the variant of object on which the requesting step is called, setting the workObject to a root object; if the workObject variable is null, pushing a noSuchVariant error onto a notification stack and exiting the method; determining direction for searching the version tree using the desired version and the version of workObject; if the workObject is visible, returning said workObject as the desired version; if the workObject is not visible and the desired version is equal to zero, determining if the workObject has previous versions; if the workObject has no previous versions, returning a null object.

Method for locating a versioned object within a version tree depicting a

The method of the present invention is useful in a computer system having a user interface, a memory, a database and a repository operative in the computer system for accessing the database. The method is implemented by the computer system for collapsing a version tree that depicts a history of objects stored in the database. The method, which is stored in the memory at run-time, comprises the steps of validating collapse request by insuring that the target object is not a ghost object, the end object is not a ghost, the end object is on the same version tree as the target object, and the end object is a later version than the target object. An empty array representing path objects is initialized from the target object to the end object; and if an end object is supplied, a function is called to build up an array of objects representing paths from the target object to the end object. The array of objects built up in the preceding steps is processed. For each nextVersion of the target object, a function is called to collapse the versions starting from nextVersion; and, a function is also called to destruct the target object.

Method for collapsing a version tree which depicts a history of system

The method of the present invention is useful in a computer system having a user interface, a memory, a repository and a database. The method is a repository program executed by the computer system for maintaining a history of objects stored in the repository. The method comprises the steps of determining if the object is a new logical object, and if so constructing a new versioned object; and, if not retrieving from the repository an object on which a new state is to be based. If the new state is being derived from only one object, then reserving the object. If the state is being derived from two objects, then retrieving from the repository the other object on which the new state is based, and merging the two objects. If the state changes are to be retained, then replacing the object; and, if the state changes are not to be retained, then unreserving the object.

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