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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2007
Applicants:
Joachim H. Frank, Greenwich, CT (US);
James Rumbaugh, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joachim H. Frank, Greenwich, CT (US);
James Rumbaugh, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A model of a process is created using novel 'fan-out' and 'fan-in' symbols. A fan-out symbol represents a point in the process flow where a variable number of homogeneous parallel outgoing threads are being split out from a single incoming thread. The fan-in symbol represents a point in the process flow where a variable number of parallel incoming threads with homogeneous output are combined into one or more outgoing threads.