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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020

Filed:

May. 03, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Gerard Cunningham, Dublin, IE;

John B. Meade, Dunshaughlin, IE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/21 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/212 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01);
Abstract

As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, includes accessing a master schema defining one or more reference models, the master schema comprising a plurality of model elements each model element thereof comprising an element name and an element definition and fragmenting the master schema to provide a plurality of sub-projects. The method further includes identifying a change in a sub-project model element, updating the master schema according to the identified change to the sub-project model element, and distributing the updated master schema changes to other sub-projects that include the changed model element. A computer system, and a computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.


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