Object-based modeling using model objects exportable to external modeling tools

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8930487-B2
Application number	US-47543909-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2009
Priority date	May 29, 2009
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for object-based modeling using modeling objects exportable to external modeling tools. A modeling client can host modeling logic and an application programming interface (API) to create, access, manipulate, and import/export modeling objects used in modeling applications, such as engineering, medical, financial, and other modeling platforms. In aspects, the source data accepted into the modeling client can be consumer or business-level applications, whose cell, database, or other data content can be extracted and encapsulated in an object-oriented format, such as extensible markup language (XML) format. The modeling client can exchange one or more resulting modeling object directly with external platforms, such as mainframe platforms, middleware databases, and others, via the application programming interface (API) on a programmatic basis. Costs and maintenance savings over mainframe-based modeling tools can thereby be achieved, while providing greater power than consumer or business-level tools.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
executing an instance of a first application on a client machine, the instance of the first application comprising spreadsheet source data;
invoking a second application, wherein the second application selects a portion of the spreadsheet source data and extracts a set of data elements and a set of functional relationships describing computations between the set of data elements of the portion of spreadsheet source data;
generating,…

Assignees

• Williamson Eric
• Red Hat Inc

Inventors

• Williamson Eric

Classifications

• G06Q10/06 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic