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System for designing information control networks for modeling all kinds of processes

  • US 5,481,668 A
  • Filed: 06/08/1993
  • Issued: 01/02/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for designing information control networks for modeling a process, including means for defining a set of independent procedures, said independent procedures comprising objects, including activities to be performed, AND-SOURCE or OR-SOURCE jumps, or AND-WELL or OR-WELL jumps, which together define the process to be modeled, means for representing each object as a different graphical symbol, means for assigning textual attributes and other information to the graphical symbols, means for representing the information as receptacles indicating a file, document or message, each receptacle having a different shade based on the information contained therein, means for defining logical links between the objects, and for defining logical links between the objects and the other information to define a process model in the form of a graph, said graph connecting activities by arrows drawn in a solid line, either directly or by way of a jump, wherein activities are also connected by dashed arrows to the information, and means for interactively manipulating the objects, attributes, information and links on a graphical screen of the information processing device.

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