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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2012
Kenneth W. Fertig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sudhakar Y. Reddy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bruce Riggins, Whittier, CA (US);
Kenneth W. Fertig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sudhakar Y. Reddy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bruce Riggins, Whittier, CA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method for simplifying a complex well-formed formula (WFF) may include receiving, in a formula processor, an input WFF and converting the input WFF into an initial bit array. The method may further include simplifying the initial bit array into a simplified bit array by removing predicates from the initial bit array not necessary to represent the input WFF. The method may include converting the simplified bit array into a return WFF in either a conjunctive normal form or a disjunctive normal form.