Collaborative modeling environment

• US 8,671,110 B1
• Filed: 07/18/2011
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
• Original Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
• Inventors: Mosterman, Pieter J., Abizeid, Farid Antoine, Wey, Claudia Gaudagnini, Shakeri, Mojdeh, Torgerson, Jay Ryan, Simsek, Hidayet T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Wilson
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hershley, Mark E
• Application Number:
  US13/185,342
• Time in Patent Office: 967 Days
• Field of Search: 707/771
• US Class Current: 707/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2457 with adaptation to user needs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results

Abstract

A system may receive a model, extract information from the model, form a group of tags using the extracted information, and associate the group of tags with the model. The system may further receive a search query including one or more sequences of characters and determine whether to provide the model in a list of models created for the search query, based on the one or more sequences of characters and the group of tags.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a first device, cause the at least one processor to receive a request, from a model creation environment of a second device, to share a portion of a model with one or more users,

the model including information relating to a computation,

the model creation environment being used, by the second device, to create models,

the models including the model,

the model creation environment including an element,

the request being generated by the second device based on the second device detecting selection of the element in the model creation environment, and

the second device being different than the first device;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to receive, from the second device via the model creation environment, the portion of the model based on the request being generated by the second device based on the second device detecting the selection,

the received portion of the model including information that is used to determine whether the received portion of the model is functional;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to determine, based on the information, whether the received portion of the model is functional; and

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to cause the received portion of the model to be made available to the one or more users based on;

the request being generated by the second device based on the second device detecting the selection, and

determining whether the received portion of the model is functional.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the selection of the element includes a single selection of the element,

where the element includes at least one of a menu item, a button, or a popup menu item, and

where the one of the menu item, the button, or the popup menu item is associated with the request to share the portion of the model.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions to cause the model to be made available remotely from the first device.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions to cause the model to be made available locally from the second device.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the model includes a dynamic model.

6. A method comprising:

receiving a request, from a model creation environment of a user device, to share a portion of a model with one or more users,

the model including information relating to a computation,

the model creation environment being used, by the user device, to create models,

the models including the model,

the model creation environment including an element and the model,

the request being generated by the user device based on the user device detecting selection of the element in the model creation environment, and

the receiving the request being performed by a computing device associated with a modeling infrastructure,

the computing device being different than the user device;

receiving the portion of the model, from the user device via the model creation environment, based on the request generated by the user device,

the receiving the portion of the model being performed by the computing device;

determining whether the received portion of the model is functional,

the determining being performed by the computing device; and

causing the received portion of the model to be made available to the one or more users based on determining whether the received portion of the model is functional,

the causing being performed by the computing device.

7. The method of claim 6, where the selection of the element includes a single selection of the element, and

where the element includes at least one of a menu item, a button, or a popup menu item.

8. The method of claim 6, where the model includes a dynamic model.

9. The method of claim 6, where determining whether the received portion of the model is functional includes:

executing the received portion of the model, and

determining whether the received portion of the model is functional based on executing the received portion of the model.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining that the received portion of the model is not functional;

transmitting, to the user device, information indicating that the received portion of the model is not functional; and

causing the received portion of the model to be shared based on a response, from the user device, to the transmitted information.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to detect selection of an element in a model creation environment,

the model creation environment being used to create models, and

the model creation environment including a model,

the model including information relating to a computation,

the computation being performed, to obtain results, based on execution of the model;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to provide a search dialog box, in the model creation environment that includes the model, based on detecting the selection;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to receive a search query using the search dialog box;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to transmit information relating to the search query to a remote location;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to receive, from the remote location, information identifying one or more models, based on transmitting the information relating to the search query; and

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to present the received information identifying the one or more models,

the one or more models to be inserted into the model, in the model creation environment, after the one or more models are received from the remote location.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions to create the model using the model creation environment, and

where the element includes an element of the created model.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, where the element includes a menu item.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, where the remote location includes a modeling infrastructure.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, where the instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions to receive a particular model of the one or more models; and

one or more instructions to insert the particular model into the model.

16. A method comprising:

providing a search dialog box,

the providing being performed by a computing device,

the search dialog box being provided in a model creation environment,

the model creation environment being used to create models, and

the model creation environment including a model,

the model including information relating to a computation,

a result of the computation being based on execution of the model;

receiving a search query via the search dialog box,

the receiving the search query being performed by the computing device;

identifying one or more models based on the search query,

the identifying being performed by the computing device;

presenting information identifying the one or more models,

the presenting being performed by the computing device;

receiving the one or more models based on a request for the one or more models,

the receiving the one or more models being performed by the computing device; and

inserting the received one or more models into the model in the model creation environment,

the inserting being performed by the computing device.

17. The method of claim 16, where the search query is received from a remote location, and

where the computing device is associated with a modeling infrastructure.

18. The method of claim 16, where the search query includes information identifying an author associated with at least one model.

19. The method of claim 16, where the one or more models are ranked based on one or more sequences of characters included in the search query, and

where presenting the information identifying the one or more models includes:

presenting the ranked one or more models.

20. The method of claim 16, where the search query includes information identifying a rating associated with one or more models.