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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:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2015
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventor:

Panagiotis Manolios, Sharon, MA (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3608 (2013.01); G06F 8/10 (2013.01); G06F 8/20 (2013.01); G06F 17/504 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to some embodiments, a system and method are provided for analyzing formal system requirements for software and hardware components in a software and hardware component specification model comprising receiving at least one requirement defined using a formal notation; determining if each of the requirements is self-conflicting via execution of a self-conflicting module; determining if two or more requirements conflict with each other via execution of a set-conflicting module after execution of the self-conflicting module; identifying each requirement involved in a conflict and how the one or more requirements conflicts via execution of an error localization module; receiving an updated requirement; repetitively analyzing each updated requirement with the self-conflicting module and the set-conflicting module; and generating an indication that requirements analysis is complete for the one or more requirements and the one or more requirements is validated for use in software design. Numerous other aspects are provided.


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