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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131543 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING USER INTERFACE STRUCTURE IN A MODEL BASED SOFTWARE SYSTEM Method and system for capturing device-independent user interface structure in a model based software system are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least one entry point is received from a user by a business system. Further, a user interface corresponding to the at least ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131542 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING REUSABLE SOFTWARE COMPONENTS BASED ON REGULATORY AND POLICY DOCUMENTS TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH THE DOCUMENTS FOR INTEGRATION WITH AUTOMATED SYSTEMS A computer-assisted method for generating one or more reusable software components that can be invoked by an automated business process to make the automated business process compliant with a regulation is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the method includes... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131544 | Model Extension Framework Techniques for implicitly extending an object model, even those that do not provide an extension mechanism, in a manner that is transparent, independent, and non-disruptive to the model itself. An “extension” is preferably created for each object to be extended, and... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110545 | ABSTRACTING TRANSFORMATION FOR MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE An example embodiment of the present invention provides a process for abstracting an implementation-independent model to an implementation-specific model during transformation in a MDA system. In the example embodiment, the MDA system comprises a transformation engine w... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084747 | PARTITIONED ITERATIVE CONVERGANCE PROGRAMMING MODEL Methods and systems for iterative convergence include performing at least one global iteration. Each global iteration includes partitioning input data into multiple input data partitions according to an input data partitioning function, partitioning a model into multipl... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084748 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR GENERATING A DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SOFTWARE SOLUTION A method for generating a domain-specific software solution may include receiving a request for a solution model to accomplish one or more tasks. A domain model may be selected in response to the request for the solution model. The solution model may be configured based... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072884 | CONVERTING BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS TO COMPONENT MODELS IN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE DOMAIN Process artifacts and elements in a business process model, such as a Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) compliant model, may be analyzed, converted into component model building blocks for developing applications, and enriched with technical metadata. The compon... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054713 | Method for Generating Specifications of Static Test A computer implemented rule for verifying consistency in design documents is modeled as a set of associations among deliverable components, and a descriptive text explaining the specification is generated in combination with a text template.... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047483 | Smart Web Service Discovery The present disclosure involves software and computer implemented methods for smart discovery of web services. One process includes operations for identifying a modeled service composition at design time in an integrated development environment (IDE), receiving a select... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047484 | DECORATED MODEL ARCHITECTURE FOR EFFICIENT MODEL-DRIVEN APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT A computer-executable application is provided with access to resources generated using a principal model. A decoration model associated with said principal model is instantiated for use by the application. The application is provided with access to an object of the deco... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042299 | MODEL TRANSFORMATION UNIT The invention concerns a model transformation unit adapted to transform a first source model in a source domain into a target model in a target domain, the first source model being a tree of source elements and the target model being a tree of target elements representi... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036493 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A USER PROGRAM FOR A SAFETY CONTROLLER A method for creating a user program for a safety controller designed to control an automated installation having a plurality of sensors and a plurality of actuators involves several programming steps. The user program comprises a first program portion, in which safety-... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120017196 | SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE AND MICRO-ARCHITECTURE (SAMA) REPRESENTATION OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically generate a custom integrated circuit (IC) design by receiving a specification of the custom IC including computer readable code to be executed by the custom IC; generating an abstraction of the IC as a system, processor... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEM MODEL GENERATION A method of transmitting data is disclosed. At least one system block of a system-on-chip (SoC) is modeled at an untimed functional level in first and second untimed functional models. First and second transaction level (TL) models of the at least one system block syste... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011487 | MODEL VERIFICATION SYSTEM, MODEL VERIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A model verification system includes a formal language conversion part operable to convert model figure data registered as a design pattern in association with a program into formal language expression data based upon an expression format of a predetermined formal langu... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005644 | MODULARIZING STEPS WITHIN A UML USER MODEL INTERACTION PATTERN User modeling facilitates use of a UML user model to define roles, goals, and tasks inside an organization, and defines how the roles, goals, and tasks relate to business entities within the organization. This information can be used to generate a user interface (UI) th... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005645 | METAOBJECT ENHANCEMENT OBJECTS A system may include acquisition of metadata defining a first object model, the first object model comprising an instance of a metaobject, acquisition of enhancement object metadata defining one or more enhancements to the first object model and associating each of the ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110321001 | VISUALIZATION OF RUNTIME ANALYSIS ACROSS DYNAMIC BOUNDARIES The formulation of an architectural diagram of a software program having multiple components. A static model identifying at least some of the components and a relationship between the components is accessed by perhaps performing a static code analysis of the code of the... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110307857 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING RESOURCES USING A COMPOSITIONAL PROGRAMMING MODEL A model is provided for managing resources in a programming environment. A first construct is triggered to update mutable entities in response to changes to related data associated with the mutable entities. In accordance with the updated mutable entities, at least one ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307856 | WORKFLOW VISUALIZATION A mechanism is provided for saving workflow execution state and mapping the execution state to graphical elements overlaid on a graphical drawing representing the workflow generated by a separate application. The graphical drawing may be a flowchart drawing correspondin... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302550 | Providing Diverse Solutions Using Design Space Exploration A design space exploration (DSE) system automatically discovers viable solutions within a design space. The DSE system operates by creating or receiving a design specification that is described using a design language. The design specification contains a collection of c... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296373 | COMMAND LINE SHELL COMMAND GENERATION BASED ON SCHEMA A code generator tool capable of creating command shell commands at compile time or runtime from a schema such as an XSD schema is provided. The code generator generates classes to represent data defined by a schema and the command shell generation code may use knowledg... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296374 | CUSTOM LANGUAGE MODELS Systems, methods, and apparatuses including computer program products for generating a custom language model. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a collection of documents; clustering the documents into one or more clusters; genera... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110271246 | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT TOOL A software development support tool includes a software model reader configured to read a software model, a software model design intent extractor configured to extract a developer's design intent described in the software model, a source code generator configured to ou... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110265060 | Performance-Related Decision Support For Compositions Of Process Modeling Environments Multiple development models of software applications utilizing different service environments may be annotated with additional information and transformed within a transformation chain into a resulting unified performance analysis model that may be used to evaluate the ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110252397 | METHOD OF PROVIDING AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING THE SAME, AND SYSTEM HAVING FUNCTION OF AUTONOMIC SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT Provided are a method of providing autonomic management of a software system, a recording medium storing a program for executing the method, and a system having a function of autonomic software management. When a request for a service is received from a user, all config... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252396 | GENERATING EXCEPTION-BASED COMPONENT MODELS FROM NON-EXCEPTION-BASED MODELS Exception-based component models can be generated from non-exception-based models. For example, a non-exception-based interface contract (such as a non-exception-based interface contract in a header file) for a consumable software component can be parsed. Additionally, ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252399 | CONFIGURABLE JAVA SERVER PAGES PROCESSING FRAMEWORK A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a configurable JavaServer pages processing framework to process JavaServer pages (JSP). A JSP document or page is translated into a document object model (DOM) object that encapsulates elements of the JSP. The syntax of... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252398 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING VOCAL USER INTERFACE CODE FROM A DATA METAL-MODEL A method, computer program and system for generating code of the vocal interface of a software application by reading the persistent data of an application designed by a data meta model using a design language such as UML (Unified Modeling Language) defining a hierarchi... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246960 | METHODS FOR SOFTWARE MASS PRODUCTION A model-oriented programming method for computer-based software system development and management. The method includes (a) obtaining the program problem specifications, (b) building a model of the software system, (c) segmenting the model into model segments, wherein ea... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239183 | DERIVING PROCESS MODELS FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE USE CASE MODELS One or more process models from natural language use case models are derived, for example, by creating, using a processor, an in-memory model of a use case from information in natural language text describing the use case; transforming the in-memory model into a process... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239184 | CAPTURING AND UTILIZING SPECIFIC MODULE DEPENDENCY INFORMATION Systems and methods are described for capturing and utilizing specific module dependency information. A hierarchical model can be created to arrange the components an existing software system in a particular hierarchy. The model defines a priority of dependencies among ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110219354 | Method and Apparatus for Service-Oriented Architecture Process Decomposition and Service Modeling Techniques are provided for service-oriented (SOA) process decomposition and service modeling. In one aspect of the invention, the techniques include identifying meta-data entities, attributes of the meta-data entities and relationships between stereotypes of the meta-d... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110197174 | Method, System and Computer Readable Medium for Generating Software Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM) Model The present invention discloses a system for generating a software TLM model, comprising a processing unit; a compiler coupled to the processing unit to generate target binary codes of a target software; a decompiler coupled to the processing unit to decompile the targe... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110191748 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DESIGN TIME SERVICE VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION Design principles of services ensure reliability, scalability and reusability of software components. Services that follow the design principles are robust to changes and are largely reusable in multiple scenarios but in similar domains. To-date there is no systematic a... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110185339 | AUTOMATING THE CREATION OF AN APPLICATION PROVISIONING MODEL An application provisioning model is automatically created. The model is created from a high-level application and specifies dependencies of the application. It is used to provision the application on one or more nodes or other actions.... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110185340 | SOFTWARE MODELING FRAMEWORK A system and method for providing a software modeling framework which supports different types of dependency injection and other software modeling or software development frameworks, and which allows software developers to develop models that strategically layer differe... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110179397 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR METAMODEL TRANSFORMATION Some aspects relate to systems and methods to receive a first metamodel conforming to a first meta-metamodel associated with first modeling unit types. A second metamodel conforming to a second meta-metamodel is generated based on the first metamodel and on a mapping be... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110161921 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED GENERATION OF SERVICE ARTIFACTS A framework (referred to herein as Application Integration Architecture, or AIA) that formalizes and orchestrates activities in an SOA development lifecycle. In one set of embodiments, AIA can capture development-related information in a shared data store and cause the ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110154286 | .NET RIBBON MODEL FOR A RIBBON USER INTERFACE An object model is provided that allows .NET developers to customize the Office Ribbon user interface according to a .NET Ribbon model rather than the Ribbon XML/callback model of Office applications. The .NET Ribbon model implements the IRibbonExtensibility interface a... | 06/23/2011 |
