Patent Document ID: 8566783
Application ID: 12362829
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining a navigation path for a constraint language editor, the method comprising: accessing at least one software model of at least one software application; parsing, with a computer, the software model to determine if there is at least one occurrence of a class inheritance, an association, and an association inheritance is in the software model; based upon the occurrence of the class inheritance, accessing a data list from a class inheritance database and performing type conversion on the data list which has been accessed; based upon the occurrence of the association, accessing a data list from an association database; and based upon the occurrence of the association inheritance, accessing a data list from an association inheritance database; loading the data list based upon the occurrence of the class inheritance, the association, and the association inheritance in the software model into a navigation path calculator; receiving user input into the navigation path calculator, the user input including a navigation starting point, a navigation ending point; and calculating, with the navigation path calculator, a navigation path with model or instance information including attributes of objects, operations of objects, associations between objects, and generations between objects.