Patent ID: 9552445
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: E21C,G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for automatic change propagation in an area-based open pit mine design, said method comprising: receiving, at a computer system, an open pit mine design, the open pit mine design having an associated mining timeline; receiving, at the computer system, a user parametric input denoting an additional area to be incorporated into the open pit mine design; automatically propagating, at the computer system, the additional area into the open pit mine design to generate a modified open pit mine design; receiving, at the computer system, a user parametric input denoting an area to be erased from the open pit mine design; automatically propagating, at the computer system, the area to be erased out of the open pit mine design to generate the modified open pit mine design; automatically performing a compliance requirement review of said modified open pit mine design to ensure the modified open pit mine design does not have a violation of any constraints provided by a user-specified safety parameter; generating an annotation field related to the modified open pit mine design, wherein the annotation field includes: automatically propagating, at the computer system, the annotation field into the modified open pit mine design.