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Relia process: integrated relational object unit identification and location addressing processes

  • US 5,630,072 A
  • Filed: 08/30/1994
  • Issued: 05/13/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An integrated relational object unit identification and location addressing (ReliA) process including a number of sub-processes for tracking and configuration management and identification of any subject Object Unit (any individual, tangible, measurable or observable object and a number of Descendant generations thereof, the number of Descendants or Descendant generations selected from the group consisting of a number of Object Units contained, a number of Object Units held and a number of Object Units physically controlled by the subject Object Unit which exists at a higher hierarchy level than the number of Descendant Object Units) in a hierarchy (a hierarchical object system with "N" hierarchy levels, where "N" is a positive integer), said number of subprocesses performed by a computer system using information about Object Units'"'"' location addresses in relation to each other to facilitate integration of control over the hierarchy and to refer relationally to any location in the hierarchy, said process:

  • (a) tracking any subject Object Unit identified by a Unique Unit Identifier (referred to as Object Unit Unique Identifier, a unique combination of characters affixed to the subject Object Unit that uniquely identifies the subject Object Unit within a universe of other Object Units) at any hierarchy level, and, thus, tracking a number of Descendant tracked Object Units of the tracked subject Object Unit;

    (b) identifying the location address, comprising a Normalized Address (a location address in which a Hierarchically Coded Location Address of tracked Ancestor Object Units is not included in the Hierarchically Coded Location Address of its Component Object Units, the location address of the Component Object Units being indicated by a reference to the lowest tracked Ancestor Object Unit of each Component Object Unit), of the subject Object Unit by referencing a number of physically related tracked Object Units within a number of physically related Ancestor Object Units (a number of related Object Units selected from the group consisting of a number of Object Units containing, a number of Object Units holding and a number of Object Units physically controlling the number of subject Object Units which exists at a lower hierarchy level than the number of Ancestor Object Units) of the subject Object Unit, with a number of intermediate tracked Ancestor Object Units existing between the subject Object Unit and referenced Ancestor Object Units and between the referenced Ancestor Object Units and an Origin Object Unit (an Object Unit without a tracked Ancestor Object Unit and as a highest hierarchy level tracked Ancestor of the subject Object Unit), to support descriptions of a location address not fully provided by hierarchical location address elements and their individual descriptions included within an Ancestor Object Unit Record (a Data Base Management System record containing parameters of an Object Unit, comprising an Ancestor, that are unique to the Object Unit); and

    (c) recording the hierarchical location address for the subject Object Unit relative to one of the related Object Units using a record (referred to as an Object Unit Record), and placing the parameters of the subject Object Unit in a file that is controlled by a series of steps performed by a computer;

    (ReliA Integrated Process).

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