Patent ID: 7464375
Filing Date: 2008-12-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system-implemented method of flattening a hierarchically structured source flow, said source flow including at least two levels of hierarchy with each level of hierarchy including one or more nodes interconnected by connectors, said computer system-implemented method comprising: (i) identifying, at a current top level of hierarchy in said source flow, any primitive node; (ii) adding to a target flow said primitive node identified in (i); (iii) identifying, at said current top level of hierarchy in (i), any complex node, each complex node containing at least one subflow with one or more nodes interconnected by connectors; (iv) adding to said target flow said at least one subflow in place of said complex node identified in (iii); (v) re-establishing connections between any nodes and subflows added to said target flow, and maintaining node terminal connections such that any data flowing through said target flow is processed as if through said source flow.