Data management system having shared libraries

Patent 5826265 Issued on October 20, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date:

December 6, 2016. 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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Inventors

Application

No. 761320 filed on 12/06/1996

US Classes:

707/8, Concurrency (e.g., lock management in shared database)707/3, Query processing (i.e., searching)707/4, Query formulation, input preparation, or translation707/9, Privileged access707/10, Distributed or remote access707/102Generating database or data structure (e.g., via user interface)

Examiners

Primary: Black, Thomas G.
Assistant: Alam, Shahid

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Augspurger; Lynn L.

International Class

G06F 017/30

Abstract

A design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provided by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world providing a set of control information for coordinating movement of the design information through development and to release while providing dynamic tracking of the status of elements of the bills of materials in an integrated and coordinated activity control system utilizing a repository which can be implemented in the form of a database (relational, object oriented, etc.) or using a flat file system. Once a model is created and/or identified by control information design libraries hold the actual pieces of the design under control of the system without limit to the number of libraries, and providing for tracking and hierarchical designs which are allowed to traverse through multiple libraries. Data Managers become part of the design team, and libraries are programmable to meet the needs of the design group they service.

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