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Program verifying method and system

US6697965B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 14, 2000
Grant dateFeb 24, 2004
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Expiry dateAug 25, 2021

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F11/3604
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A program development support system scans a program beforehand, extracts an essential process specification that should be actualized by an individual program and automatically extracts a part of the program that is not coincident with the process specification. A method of verifying an execution program executed by a computer for generating the execution program into blocks each including one or more processes and defined as a part of the program, which correspond to a verifying specification for verifying the program, generating a plurality of combinations of the two or more blocks as check route corresponding to the verifying the specification, and extracting the process corresponding to the verifying specification executed in a predetermined number or greater number of check routes, as a process specification that should be executed also in other check route.

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