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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 01, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Peter J. Johnson, Hursley Park, GB;

Stephen J. Upton, Hants, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/28 (2013.01); G06F 17/2785 (2013.01); G06F 17/2795 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06 (2013.01); G06Q 10/067 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are directed to refining hierarchies in object-oriented models. A method includes providing a business object model in the form of an object-oriented model having one or more members with multiple distinct verbalizations and identifying distinct verbalizations of a given business object model member. The method also includes reviewing existing rules of the business object model to produce mappings of the distinct verbalizations and any attributes or operations used in conjunction with the distinct verbalizations of members of the business object model and analysing the mappings to identify patterns of use of the distinct verbalizations. The method further includes categorising a distinct verbalization as a superclass or subclass.


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