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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:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345339 ; 395 10 ; 39518301 ;
Abstract
A diagnosis apparatus includes a user interface (UI) control processing unit provided as a user's interface, a plurality of symptom evaluation processing unit operatively connected in parallel to the UI control processing unit, and a display unit operatively connected to the UI control processing unit. The UI control processing unit sequentially broadcasts symptoms to all symptom evaluation processing unit. Each symptom evaluation processing unit carrys a different symptom specified in advance for every processing unit, and evaluates a hypothesis for a cause of the symptom in order to execute an optimum search operation for the symptom.