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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:
Nov. 24, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
John P Reilly, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Sterling Software, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
706 45 ; 706 46 ; 706 59 ; 706 60 ; 3642744 ; 3642748 ;
Abstract
A knowledge based planning and analysis system (30) is provided which includes a toolset (32) of expert systems and a knowledge base, or object repository (40). The system (30) assists a user in developing, customizing and analyzing reusable objects which are used to build model businesses. The models include data objects and activity objects which are decomposed in parallel until they can no longer be decomposed or until the process is terminated by the user.