Object-based numeric-analysis engine

US6298334A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• NetDecide Corporation · US

Inventors

• Evan G. Burfield · Fairfax, US
• Chia-Chen Chang · Rockville, US
• Mark Drissel · Columbia, US
• Matthew Eichler · Arlington, US
• Richard Garrett · Indianapolis, US
• Robert Brian Groat · Greensboro, US
• Neill Kipp · Centennial, US
• Perry Russell Rapp · Lexington Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 15, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2001
• Expiry date: Oct 15, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/128
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method implemented in a computer system for dynamically analyzing the status of a numeric system wherein the numeric system which includes one or more numeric objects such as inflow objects, outflow objects, account objects, variable objects, and pipe objects. The present invention also provides numeric objects having a growth property. In addition the present invention provides single icons which represent either a row or column of a spredsheet.