Embedded Symbols for Software Design Completeness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Graphical representations of software designs are dynamic for object placement but static regarding completeness, making it difficult for developers to quickly assess the completeness of design objects, which increases design time and reduces personnel deployment efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A system that embeds symbols within a visual representation of software designs to indicate completeness, allowing developers to focus attention on incomplete objects, featuring a development server with a visual representation generator and completion calculator that displays embedded symbols for each process, enabling quick identification of missing information and automating the calculation of completion percentages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If graphical representations are made dynamic for object placement, then ease of operation is improved, but the ability to indicate completeness is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the visual representation into multiple layers: a dynamic canvas layer for object placement and a symbolic annotation layer for completeness indication. This allows the graphical representation to simultaneously support flexible object positioning while maintaining completeness information through embedded symbols that segment the display of structural data from visual elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a symbolic dimension to the graphical representation by embedding completion symbols within the visual display. This dimensional addition allows completeness information to be conveyed without interfering with the dynamic spatial arrangement of objects, effectively using symbol placement as an additional information carrier in the visual space.
2Measurement precision
If completeness information is manually tracked, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary automated assessment of design object completeness by continuously monitoring design data and pre-calculating completion status. This preliminary action eliminates the need for manual completeness tracking during the design process, providing accurate completion information automatically available when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system continuously monitors design object attributes and automatically updates completeness symbols in the graphical representation. This real-time feedback loop ensures measurement precision is maintained while eliminating manual intervention, as the system self-updates completeness status based on current design data.
3Measurement precision
If detailed completeness tracking is implemented, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts completeness information from the complex design data structure and presents it separately through simplified symbolic indicators in the graphical representation. This extraction approach maintains precise completeness tracking in the background while presenting only essential completion status symbols to the user, effectively separating detailed measurement functions from the user interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by providing detailed completeness information only where needed in the graphical representation, rather than overwhelming the entire interface with comprehensive data. Each design object receives targeted completeness symbols based on its specific attributes, allowing precise monitoring without global system complexity.
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AI summary
A system and method for quickly discerning a process's completeness via graphical representation of processes by graphical objects with associated embedded symbols is disclosed. The present system and method decreases design time and increases personnel deployment efficiency.