Patent ID: 11922150
Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions associated with a software project management system that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
maintaining a plurality of component data objects associated with a software development project, wherein individual component data objects represent corresponding components of the software development project;
creating a plurality of dependency data objects representing dependency relationships associated with the software development project, wherein an individual dependency data object represents a dependency relationship between:
two or more components of the software development project, or
the dependency relationship and at least one additional dependency relationship;

detecting changes to the dependency relationships; and
automatically updating the plurality of dependency data objects, based on the changes to the dependency relationships.