US 6,983,237 B2
Method and apparatus for conducting linked simulation operations utilizing a computer-based system model
Thomas S. Paterson, Tiburon, Calif. (US); and Alex L. Bangs, Watsonville, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Entelos, Inc., Foster City, Calif. (US)
Filed on Mar. 21, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/814,536.
Application 09/814536 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US00/10373, filed on Apr. 14, 2000.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/129680, filed on Apr. 16, 1999.
Prior Publication US 2001/0032068 A1, Oct. 18, 2001
Int. Cl. G06F 9/455 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 703—22 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of conducting a sequence of linked simulation operations utilizing a computer-based model, the method including:
performing a first simulation operation utilizing the model to generate an output condition; and
performing a plurality of further simulation operations utilizing the model, wherein each of the plurality of further simulation operations, at least partially and automatically, inherits the output condition generated by the first simulation operation as an input condition,
wherein at least one of the plurality of further simulation operations utilizes a delta condition in conjunction with the output condition of the first simulation operation as the input condition.