BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation - Wilmington DE
International Classification:
G06F 1518
US Classification:
706 46, 706 45, 706 47
Abstract:
A method for ensuring completeness and quality of a project or proposed change to a complex system including modeling the system as a plurality of nodes and storing the nodes in a database, each node being representative of a component or sub-system of the complex system, identifying relationships among the nodes, loading each node with a plurality of questions relating to the component represented by each node, and generating a listing including the questions, answers thereto and a time associated with accomplishing the proposed change or project. An apparatus for implementing the method is also described.
Elizabeth Palmer, Derek Crosson, Alishia Capps, Lonnie Church, Jeremy Davis, Jason Umfleet, Jennifer Pointer, Barbara Dowell, Timothy Wombles, Shawn Harshman, Christopher Bove