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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:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul R Kristoff, Garland, TX (US);
David P Nunn, Memphis, TN (US);
Christopher Winemiller, Coppell, TX (US);
Dennis L Draheim, Plano, TX (US);
John McCollum, Richardson, TX (US);
Judith S Hirsch, Plano, TX (US);
John H McGehee, Richardson, TX (US);
Robert J White, Jr, Lewisville, TX (US);
Assignee:
CMSI Acquisition Corporation, Boulder, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
700 97 ; 700121 ; 707103 ;
Abstract
The present invention allows the produce or process engineering of a factory to define a sequence of steps and to associate the steps to various levels defined by the object oriented database OODB. This allows the steps to be variable name independent and allow increased flexibility in reusability of the step.