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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2012
Applicants:
Paul F. Kinnucan, Jr., Milton, MA (US);
Pieter J. Mosterman, Framingham, MA (US);
Ebrahim Mehran Mestchian, Newton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Paul F. Kinnucan, Jr., Milton, MA (US);
Pieter J. Mosterman, Framingham, MA (US);
Ebrahim Mehran Mestchian, Newton, MA (US);
Assignee:
The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4433 (2013.01); G06F 8/10 (2013.01); G06F 8/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention allows a user to graphically define a hierarchy of user-defined, executable classes of graphical objects that can be implemented in a graphical model. The present invention supports the features of inheritance, abstraction and polymorphism. Further, descendant classes of graphical objects can graphically extend the behavior and/or structure of ancestor classes of graphical objects.