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Knowledge base management system with dependency information for procedural tests

  • US 5,720,008 A
  • Filed: 02/27/1997
  • Issued: 02/17/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a knowledge base system of the type having a description language, having means for maintaining a classification hierarchy based upon stored dependency information which relates pieces of information stored in said knowledge base, the improvement comprising;

  • means for specifying a procedural test by allowing a user to program in a language other than the description language a desired restriction not expressible in the description language;

    means in the procedural test for returning dependency information implicated upon execution of the procedural test; and

    means in the classification means responsive to the returned dependency information for updating said stored dependency information as required by the returned dependency information.

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