System, method and computer program for mapping a hierarchical display of process data of multi-database origins

• US 6,741,998 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2003
• Issued: 05/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dassault Systemes Americas Corp. (Dassault Systemes SA)
• Original Assignee: Aegis Analytical Corp. (Dassault Systemes SA)
• Inventors: Libouban, Olivier, Neway, Justin A., Junak, Jeffrey A., Dorr, Susan A., Ruth, Joseph D.
• Primary Examiner(s): ALAM, SHAHID AL
• Application Number:
  US10/354,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20030114950A1
• Time in Patent Office: 481 Days
• Field of Search: 707/2, 707/102, 707/104.1, 707/1, 707/5, 707/3, 707/4, 707/6, 707/9, 707/10, 707/8, 707/201, 707/202, 707/205, 702/19, 702/20, 702/21, 702/22, 702/81, 702/84, 703/21, 706/12, 345/764, 345/853, 345/854, 709/203, 709/204, 709/217
• US Class Current: 707/797
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/956 Hierarchical
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for analyzing a process based on displaying data to a user from a plurality of different sources and a machine-readable medium for implementing such a method. The present invention also provides a mapping system and a method for displaying data to a user employing a hierarchy including data nodes and data leaves.

Claims

1. A data structure comprising:

data nodes;

data leaves; and

label nodes, wherein said data nodes, said data leaves and said label nodes are organized in a hierarchy, wherein each of said data leaves is associated with at least one of said data nodes, wherein each of said data leaves represent data for a process, wherein each of said data nodes is associated with at least one of said label nodes, and wherein said data structure is displayed on a visual display device to allow a user to view said data for said process as organized in said hierarchy and thereby view relationships between said data.

2. The data structure of claim 1, wherein said data leaves represent data from at least two different data sources.

3. The data structure of claim 1, wherein at least some of said data nodes represent steps of said process.

4. The data structure of claim 1, wherein said process comprises a manufacturing process.

5. The data structure of claim 1, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent discrete data.

6. The data structure of claim 5, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent continuous data.

7. The data structure of claim 6, wherein at least one of said data leaves representing discrete data and at least one of said data leaves representing continuous data are associated with the same label node.

8. The data structure of claim 5, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent replicate data.

9. The data structure of claim 1, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent continuous data.

10. The data structure of claim 1, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent coded-pair data.

11. The data structure of claim 1, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent simple data.

12. A data structure comprising:

data nodes;

data leaves; and

label nodes, wherein said data nodes, said data leaves and said label nodes are organized in a hierarchy, wherein each of said data leaves is associated with at least one of said data nodes, wherein said data leaves represent data from different data sources, wherein each of said data nodes is associated with at least one of said label nodes, and wherein said data structure is displayed on a visual display device to allow a user to view said data as organized in said hierarchy and thereby view relationships between said data.

13. The data structure of claim 12, wherein at least some of said data nodes represent steps of said process.

14. The data structure of claim 12, wherein said process comprises a manufacturing process.

15. The data structure of claim 12, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent discrete data.

16. The data structure of claim 15, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent continuous data.

17. The data structure of claim 16, wherein at least one of said data leaves representing discrete data and at least one of said data leaves representing continuous data are associated with the same label node.

18. The data structure of claim 15, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent replicate data.

19. The data structure of claim 12, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent continuous data.

20. The data structure of claim 12, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent coded-pair data.

21. The data structure of claim 12, wherein at least some of said data leaves represent simple data.