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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. 24, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph E Walker, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel USA Sourcing, L.P., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709318 ;
Abstract
A generic software state machine (10) for implementing a software application in an object oriented environment includes a set of entity objects (20, 30) defined for software elements of the software application, a set of state objects (26, 34, 38, 40) defined for each entity object representative of states that the software element may enter, and a set of event objects (36, 42) defined for each state object representative of inputs that the software element may receive or actions the software element may encounter while in the state represented by the state object.