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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Danilo Florissi, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Salvatore Desimone, Woodbury, CT (US);
Schmuel Kliger, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Chao-wei Ou, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Howard H. Green, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Martin H. Wexler, San Diego, CA (US);
Danilo Florissi, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Salvatore DeSimone, Woodbury, CT (US);
Schmuel Kliger, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Chao-Wei Ou, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Howard H. Green, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Martin H. Wexler, San Diego, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for specifying and generating an alteration in a model representative of a system composed of a plurality of components, the method comprising the steps of associating configuration non-specific representations with corresponding functions operable on the model, each of the configuration non-specific representations includes representations of objects and attributes of, and/or relationships among system components, associating configuration non-specific representations of desired changes to the model for enabling alterations to the objects, attributes, relationships and/or functions of the objects, attributes and relationships subject to constraints imposed by attributes of the system, and applying the configuration non-specific represented changes to the configuration of a baseline model representation of the system to generate a new configuration non-specific model where the changes have been applied.