Flash configuration cache

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1995-03-13

2000-09-05

Teska, Kevin J.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707 2, 707 3, 707 6, G06F 1750

Patent

active

061155470

ABSTRACT:
The present invention employs a generative approach for configuring systems such that a system may be configured based on component or resource requests, or input in the form of need. The present invention provides a constraint-based configuration system using a structural model hierarchy. The structural aspects of the model provide the ability to define a model element as being contained in, or by, another model element. In addition, the structural model provides the ability to identify logical datatype and physical interconnections between elements and establish connections between elements. To configure a system, the present invention accepts input in the form of requests (e.g., component or resource) or needs, such as an expression of a need for a desktop computer system to be used in a CAD (i.e., computer-aided design) environment. Using this information, the present invention configures a system by identifying the resource and component needs, constraints imposed on or by the resources or components identified, and the structural aspects of the system. In one embodiment, a flash configuration cache is utilized to speed up the process of configuring an end product, such as a user computer. In another embodiment, a bundling cache is used to speed up the process of bundling.

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