Patent ID: 9405513
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A computerized method for graphically developing at least one transformation rule for transforming a source description notation into a target description notation, the method comprising the following operations performed by one or more processors: providing a source group of graphical constructs in a database, the source group of graphical constructs including symbols available in the source description notation; providing a target group of graphical constructs in the database, the target group of graphical constructs including symbols available in the target description notation; providing a source pattern area for a user to construct a source pattern in the source description notation using the source group of graphical constructs; providing a target pattern area, separate from the source pattern area, for a user to construct a corresponding target pattern in the target description notation using the target group graphical constructs; arranging, based on user input, the source graphical constructs in the source pattern area according to user instructions to construct the source pattern; arranging, based on user input, the target graphical constructs in the target pattern area according to user instructions to construct the corresponding target pattern; and sending the source pattern and the corresponding target pattern to a transformation engine, whereby the transformation engine stores the source pattern and the corresponding target pattern as a transformation rule and subsequently uses the transformation rule to transform a source model in the source description notation into a target model in the target description notation, the transformation rule specifying how to convert at least one source graphical construct contained in the source pattern into at least one target graphical construct contained in the target pattern.