Christopher D Baril

US Patent:

20060080369, Apr 13, 2006

Filed:

Mar 2, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/070827

Inventors:

Allen Razdow - Belmont MA, US
Christopher Baril - Malden MA, US
Frederick Mueller - Cambridge MA, US
Jeremy Lew - Watertown MA, US
Jonathan Bell - Brookline MA, US
Leopold Travis - Somerville MA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707204000

Abstract:

An improved method and system for managing the traceability of numerical, alphabetical, alphanumeric, character, or string entities such as critical constants or key calculations, equations, functions, and procedures that automatically enables the traceability of information entities without requiring significant manual intervention by a system user. The system allows a user to enter critical information such a critical constant or key calculation into a first document. When the user copies/exports the critical information from the first document and pastes/imports the information to a second document, the system automatically generates meta-data describing the provenance of the information, and propagates the provenance meta-data from the first document to the second document. By accessing provenance meta-data contained within respective documents, the user can track where critical information within a document originally came from, and which intermediary document or documents the critical information came from last.