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US Patent 6327698 - Method for integrating models in a modelling tool into an object oriented repository
US Patent Issued on December 4, 2001
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December 23, 2018Estimated 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.AbstractA method is disclosed for use in a software development system having a repository, wherein the method uses an object-oriented tool to capture models from and populate models in the repository. The method includes the steps of importing a first software model from the repository into the object-oriented tool; disposing the imported first software model in the object-oriented tool for development by a user a second software model based upon the first software model; and, exporting the second software model to the repository. | InventorApplicationNo. 219614 filed on 12/23/1998US Classes:717/104, Modeling717/108Object orientedExaminersPrimary: Chaki, KakaliAssistant: Chavis, John Q. Attorney, Agent or FirmUS Patent References5557793, In an object oriented repository, a method for treating a group of objects as a single object during execution of an operationIssued on: 09/17/1996 Inventor: Koerber5644764, Method for supporting object modeling in a repository Issued on: 07/01/1997 Inventor: Johnson, et al.5848273, Method for generating OLE automation and IDL interfaces from metadata information Issued on: 12/08/1998 Inventor: Fontana, et al.6003039, Data repository with user accessible and modifiable reuse criteria Issued on: 12/14/1999 Inventor: Barry, et al.6038393, Software development tool to accept object modeling data from a wide variety of other vendors and filter the format into a format that is able to be stored in OMG compliant UML representation Issued on: 03/14/2000 Inventor: Iyengar, et al.6061515, System and method for providing a high level language for mapping and accessing objects in data stores Issued on: 05/09/2000 Inventor: Chang, et al.6167405, Method and apparatus for automatically populating a data warehouse system Issued on: 12/26/2000 Inventor: Rosensteel, Jr., et al.6256773System, method and article of manufacture for configuration management in a development architecture framework Issued on: 07/03/2001 Inventor: Bowman-Amuah Foreign Patent References
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