Method for automatically enabling traceability of engineering calculations
US8121998B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 2, 2005 |
| Grant date | Feb 21, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 12, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/169
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An improved method and system for managing the traceability of numerical, alphabetical, alphanumeric, character, or string entities such as critical constants or key calculations, equations, functions, and procedures that automatically enables the traceability of information entities without requiring significant manual intervention by a system user. The system allows a user to enter critical information such a critical constant or key calculation into a first document. When the user copies/exports the critical information from the first document and pastes/imports the information to a second document, the system automatically generates meta-data describing the provenance of the information, and propagates the provenance meta-data from the first document to the second document. By accessing provenance meta-data contained within respective documents, the user can track where critical information within a document originally came from, and which intermediary document or documents the critical information came from last.
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