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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2015
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (US);
Kelly Eric Bowman, Provo, UT (US);
Joshua Coburn, Orem, UT (US);
Charles Greg Jensen, Provo, UT (US);
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNVERSITY, Provo, UT (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for an interoperable hierarchical model for conducting multiuser CAx OPERATIONS may include (1) storing a model of an engineering object in a plurality of data nodes that are interconnected with a plurality of dependency references that specify one or more parent nodes for each non-root node of the plurality of data nodes, the plurality of data nodes and the plurality of dependency references corresponding to a directed acyclic graph, (2) indicating an operational order for each data node that has a common parent, and (3) executing in the indicated operational order a CAx-related function for each data node. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.