Patent №
US 6,489,971
Granted
2002-12-03
Filed 1999
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
2
ml · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09455708
Disclosed is an apparatus and method to build programs from activity functional units (AFUs) within a graphical environment. AFUs are comprised of a set of graphically-represented functional units (FUs). The resulting AFUs can be combined with other FUs and previously-created code represented in FU graphical form to build large complex programs which are easily modified and added to by the user by means of manipulation of graphical elements on the computer screen.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 104780413
Assignors
MILLER, MARK L., PRIDDY, MICHAEL S.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.