Appeal No. 96-0587
Application 07/927,543
final rejection of claims 1, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 19, 20, 22,
24-28, 30, 32, 33, 36, and 42-45. Claims 2-5, 8, 10, 13, 14,
16-18, 21, 23, 29, 31, 34, 35, and 37-41 have been objected to as
being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but are indicated to
be allowable if rewritten in independent form to include all of
the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
We affirm-in-part.
The disclosed invention is directed to a concurrent tradeoff
analysis system and method.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A computer implemented method for tradeoff
analysis, comprising steps of:
ascertaining a set of constraints;
defining a set of variables for specifying a solution;
defining a set of characteristics for specifying the
merit of said solution;
computing values for said sets of variables and said
sets of characteristics representing a current solution
state;
comparing said computed values of said variables and
said characteristics with said constraints;
generating at least one alternative to said current
solution state in response to at least one of said variables
and characteristics being inconsistent with said
constraints;
evaluating said current solution state and
alternatives; and
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