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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2010
Surya P Kolluri, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Zhu-song Mei, Chicago, IL (US);
Dmitriy Feferman, Chicago, IL (US);
Kevin P Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael Irish, San Francisco, CA (US);
Heather E Nelson, Chicago, IL (US);
David Kil, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Surya P Kolluri, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Zhu-Song Mei, Chicago, IL (US);
Dmitriy Feferman, Chicago, IL (US);
Kevin P Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael Irish, San Francisco, CA (US);
Heather E Nelson, Chicago, IL (US);
David Kil, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Accenture Global Services Limited, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
The hierarchical relationships between objects in different levels of an object structure (such as a contract) are stored as elements in two-dimensional matrix representations. In general, the matrix representations facilitate queries, clustering of like objects and contracts, and comparisons that identify common objects and contracts.