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Generating a class model from a business vocabulary to represent facts expressible in the business vocabulary

  • US 7,613,666 B1
  • Filed: 04/23/2004
  • Issued: 11/03/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for generating an object-oriented model from a vocabulary, the method comprising the operations of:

  • (a) receiving the vocabulary comprising terms and sentential forms, each of the terms comprising a word or phrase representing a concept, each of the sentential forms comprising a prepositional statement representing a fact type and including at least one placeholder, the placeholder being specified by a term;

    (b) automatically creating a first class for each of the terms in the vocabulary;

    (c) making a classification superclass to be a superclass for each of the first classes, wherein the classification superclass is a subclass of a fact superclass, wherein the fact superclass is a superclass whose instances are facts, such that each instance of the first class represents a fact that a thing is classified to be an instance of the concept represented by the corresponding term rather than representing an instance of the concept, and wherein the classification superclass is a superclass whose instances are classifications;

    (d) automatically creating a second class for each sentential form in the vocabulary;

    (e) making the fact superclass to be a superclass for each of the second classes, wherein the fact superclass is a superclass whose instances are facts, such that each instance of the second class represents a fact that is an instance of the fact type represented by the corresponding sentential form; and

    wherein acts (a)-(e) are performed so as to limit the granularity of encapsulation of information in each of the first classes and the second classes to no larger than the representation of a single fact.

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