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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1986
Colleen M Corrigan, Chicago, IL (US);
Lawrence W Hunter, Austin, TX (US);
John A Modry, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for producing machine executable object code, a program listing and a listing of design documentation from a source code program consisting of a plurality of statements of implementation code including keywords and a plurality of statements of design documentation code wherein the design documentation code includes words corresponding to the keywords of the implementation code. The apparatus includes a processor for reading the source code program, a compiler for producing the machine executable object code from the implementation code, and the program listing. Furthermore, the apparatus includes an extractor that produces the design documentation by listing all of the design documentation code with the corresponding keywords in the order of appearance in the source program.