Patent ID: 7996194

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for processing a composite signal, the computer-implemented method comprising: forming, by a first block of a simulatable block diagram model, a first composite signal from an ordered set of a first signal and a second signal, the first signal being associated with one or more attributes and the second signal being associated with one or more attributes, the first signal being associated with at least one attribute that is different than the attributes associated with the second signal, the first composite signal preserving the attributes associated with the first signal and the second signal; inputting the first composite signal into a second block of the simulatable block diagram model; and processing the first composite signal in the second block, the processing including: performing an operation on the first signal, performing the operation on the second signal, and outputting one or more output signals from the second block, a value of the one or more output signals being based on a result of performing the operation on the first signal and the second signal.