INHERITING CODE IN A TRANSFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING SYSTEM

Patent №

US 6,493,869

Granted

2002-12-10

Filed 1999

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09322399

A transformation programming system allows code to be inherited. A question and answer methodology is used among question handlers corresponding to nodes of a graph representing the program being transformed. A question handler can inherit code from another question handler by submitting a question requesting the code.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware1.00
Natural language1.00
Evolutionary computation0.02
Machine learning0.01
Vision0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 102540810

Assignors

KWIATKOWSKI, PAUL, RICHTER, DAVID, PARAMASIVAM, M.

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

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