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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:
Jun. 06, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel N Jackson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395575 ;
Abstract
Bugs are identified within a subject program by embellishing the program with specifications that specify relationships between abstract components of objects of the program. The dependency specified by the specifications are compared with the dependencies provided within the code of the subject program to identify any missing dependencies between abstract components in the code. Any missing dependencies in the code point to errors within the subject program.