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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2007
Alessandro Sabatelli, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathan Wertman, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Pierre-olivier Latour, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alessandro Sabatelli, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathan Wertman, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Pierre-Olivier Latour, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that refactors a port of a node in a graph, wherein the node has one or more input ports and one or more output ports. During operation, the system identifies an input port of the node to be refactored. The system then creates a pass-through node, wherein the value on an output port of the pass-through node equals the value on an input port of the pass-through node. Next, the system connects the output port of the pass-through node to the input port to be refactored, so that the refactored input port receives a value that is set on the input port of the pass-through node.