Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Mark M. MacCabe, Esq.
  • Patent number: 6675370
    Abstract: Documentation of a software application is automatically generated for the classes, written in an object oriented-language, which comprise the application. The classes within the application are typically arranged in a hierarchy and contain productions of a specification grammar in Extended Backus Naur form. The automatically generated documentation corresponding to these productions are closely wired to the underlying class hierarchy by creating hypertext links between the productions in different classes. Thus, these generated hyperlinks allow browsing of the automatically generated documentation according to the hierarchical structure of the classes in the object-oriented class hierarchy being documented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Neelakantan Sundaresan