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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:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2003
Applicants:
Brian Berenbach, Edison, NJ (US);
Jean Hartmann, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Brian Berenbach, Edison, NJ (US);
Jean Hartmann, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for extracting requirements of an architectural software model comprises providing a use case model as a directed graph of the architectural software model comprising nodes corresponding to use cases and relations between nodes, and creating, automatically, a tree comprising a root node corresponding to an abstract use case and at least one leaf node corresponding to one of an abstract use case and a concrete use case.