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US 2006/0150169 A1Published application
Object model tree diagram
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsStephen Cook, Gareth Jones, Stuart Kent, Alan Wills
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsStephen Cook, Gareth Jones, Stuart Kent, Alan Wills
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A designer tool that facilitates design of an object model. The tool takes as input a computer-readable representation of a graph of objects (e.g., classes), and creates automatically one or more diagrams that depict these classes as editable trees showing their relationships and properties. These graphs naturally have a tree-like structure which is exploited by the approach. The design tool system includes a layout component that receives as input one or more of the graphs, and converts the one or more graphs into the editable treelike structure. The system further comprises a presentation component that presents the editable treelike structure as a treelike structure diagram, and facilitates user interaction therewith. The tool can be used for opening, editing and saving existing object model files or to create new ones.
A system that facilitates design of an object model, comprising:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions of a method of processing an object model, the method comprising:
A system that facilitates development of a class diagram, the system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.