GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT FOR DETERMINISTIC FINITE STATE AUTOMATA

Patent №

US 6,489,971

Granted

2002-12-03

Filed 1999

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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

AI hardware1.00
Machine learning0.94
Planning0.08
Vision0.07
Natural language0.02
Evolutionary computation0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 104780413

Assignors

MILLER, MARK L., PRIDDY, MICHAEL S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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