Computer aided building plan review system and process

Patent 4964060 Issued on October 16, 1990. Estimated Expiration Date:

October 16, 2007. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Hartsog, Charles H.

Application

No. 805361 filed on 12/04/1985

US Classes:

703/1STRUCTURAL DESIGN

Examiners

Primary: Lall, Parshotam S.
Assistant: Melnick, S. A.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Flehr, Hohbach, Test, Albritton & Herbert

Foreign Patent References

88503 EP. 09/13/1988
0163665 JP 09/13/1984
0708359 SU 01/13/1980

International Class

G06F 015/60

Abstract

A plan checking data processing system (10) has an input (12) for providing a development plan to be checked to the system in a form intelligible to the system (10). Memory (18) contains standards (22) against which the development plan is to be checked, also in a form intelligible to the system (10). A program (20) is used by processor (26) for evaluating the development plan according to the standards (22). An output (30) receives results of the evaluation.

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