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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2005
Stephen Marshall Beckett, Canton, GA (US);
Antony J. Castagno, Roswell, GA (US);
Damon Gerard Lockwood, Decatur, GA (US);
Horace Daniel Mcdougald, Canton, GA (US);
Stephen Marshall Beckett, Canton, GA (US);
Antony J. Castagno, Roswell, GA (US);
Damon Gerard Lockwood, Decatur, GA (US);
Horace Daniel McDougald, Canton, GA (US);
OpenSpan, Inc., alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
A visual software development system in which a user can graphically build a design or software solution without having to write software code includes one or more adapters that interrogate interfaces of the software platform that a software system or systems is built in accordance with and generate descriptions that the user can then incorporate into the design. The software systems can be of disparate technology platforms, an adapter provided that suits each platform. The descriptions can be represented graphically for the user with icons in an integrated development environment (IDE), and the user can build the design by dragging or otherwise selecting descriptions to be used and connecting them together to graphically represent the flow of information or communication of events among the descriptions.