Patent · US Expired

Apparatus and method for extracting documentation text from a source code program

US4860203A · kind A · utility

77Cited by
14References
10Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateSep 17, 1986
Grant dateAug 22, 1989
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 17, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F8/41
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for producing machine executable object code, a program listing and a listing of design documentation from a source code program consisting of a plurality of statements of implementation code including keywords and a plurality of statements of design documentation code wherein the design documentation code includes words corresponding to the keywords of the implementation code. The apparatus includes a processor for reading the source code program, a compiler for producing the machine executable object code from the implementation code, and the program listing. Furthermore, the apparatus includes an extractor that produces the design documentation by listing all of the design documentation code with the corresponding keywords in the order of appearance in the source program.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.