Patent Document ID: 9607263
Application ID: 15158472
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for generating patterns with a network comprising: providing a recursive network of sub-networks with a parent feature input node and at least two child feature output nodes; propagating node selection down the network layer hierarchy in a manner consistent with node connections of sub-networks of the network, the propagation within the sub-network comprising: at an activated parent feature node of a sub-network, selecting a pool node consistent with a selection function of the parent feature node; at a pool node of a sub-network, selecting at least a first parent-specific child feature (PSCF) node that corresponds to a child feature node of the sub-network; and in response to the selection of a first node of the sub-network, enforcing a selection constraint on at least a second node of a second pool according to a lateral constraint node of the sub-network; and compiling the state of final child feature nodes of the network into a generated output.