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Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing status of a process

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#3US Patent No. 5,801,958

Applies to Claims 1,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,2,20,3,9

Submitted by: Steven WeinerCreated: almost 6 years ago

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Summary / Description

Summary / Description	An example of prior art GUI-driven CAD system for IC logic design

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Type of Prior Art	Issued Patents - US

Country	United States of America

Patent/Application #	US Patent No. 5,801,958

Kind Code	United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A

Patentee Name	LSI Logic

Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines	Abstract; schematic editor &am

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Filing Date	September 1, 1998

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Abstract: A technique for hierarchical display of control and dataflow graphs allowing a user to view hierarchically filtered control and dataflow information related to a design. The technique employs information inherent in the design description and information derived from design synthesis to identify modules of the design and design hierarchy. The user can specify a level of detail to be displayed for any design element or group of design elements. Any CDFG (control and dataflow graph) object can be annotated with a visual attribute or with text to indicate information about the design elements represented by the object. For example, block size, interior color, border color, line thickness, line style, etc., can be used to convey quantitative or qualitative information about a CDFG object. Examples of information which can be used to annotate objects include power dissipation, propagation delay, the number of HDL statement represented, circuit area, number of logic gates, etc...

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An apparatus for providing a summary for at least one process of a system, the apparatus comprising: a block object for accepting input data descriptive of the at least one process and for grouping as a block at least one variable of the input data with at least one attribute for the variable; and a display client for reading the block and producing output to display the summary for the at least one process.

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Conventional prior art CAD systems like the '598 patent typically had graphical schematic editors that accept user input describing/specifying a logic system and interactively generating a schematic display of that system. Individual components/gates having one more variable (boolean) inputs could be selected and grouped (e.g. hierarchically) and associated with various attributes including name. See e.g. citations above.

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The apparatus as in Claim 1, wherein the input data comprises at least one of historic data, predictive data, improved data, calculated data, derived data, reference data, real-time data, approximately real-time data, data collected by system sensors, operational data, manual input data and projected data.

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user input GUI data is a kind of "manual" data. Also typically "historic" (e.g. from previous designs/libraries ), "derived", "calculated",

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The apparatus as in Claim 1, wherein the at least one attribute comprises at least one of a member name, a display name, a type, a display changeable status and a visibility option.

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display name and other visual attributes are described (see abstract, otehr excerpts referenced above) and are stock elements in CAD systems

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The apparatus as in Claim 1, wherein the block object comprises a user interface for selecting the at least one variable and the at least one attribute.

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The apparatus as in Claim 9, wherein the user interface comprises at least one of a graphical user interface (GUI), a control tree structure and a tag listing.

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The apparatus as in Claim 1, wherein the display client comprises a context menu for customizing the appearance of the output.

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The apparatus as in Claim 1, comprising at least one of a computer system, a network, at least one sensor, a server, a display system and a remote access.

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The apparatus as in Claim 1, wherein the apparatus is an enhancement to an existing system.

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see background section, and see columns 30-31

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A method for providing a summary for at least one process of a system, the method comprising: selecting a block comprising at least one variable descriptive of the process with at least one attribute for the variable;

using a display client, reading the block to produce output; and,

displaying the output as the summary for the at least one process.

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The method as in Claim 14, further comprising creating the block by using a block object to select the at least one variable and the at least one attribute.

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The method as in Claim 14, wherein providing comprises at least one of a continuous basis, about a real-time basis, a periodic basis and a frequent basis.

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prior art is both continuous and real-time (interactive)

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An apparatus for providing a summary for at least one process of a system, the apparatus comprising: means for accepting input data descriptive of the at least one process and for grouping as a block at least one variable of the input data with at least one attribute for the variable; and display means for reading the block and producing output to display the summary for the at least one process.

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