Shrager.pa@XEROX.COM (08/02/86)
United States Patent # 4,591,983 Date: May 27, 1986 Title: Hierarchical Knowledge System Filed: July 9, 1984 Abstract: A knowledge system has a hierarchical knowledge base comprising a functional decomposition of a set of elements into subject sets over a plurality of hierarchical levels. [...] the operations include matching, configuring, and expanding the user-defined set of elements [...] In a specific embodyment, the elements are available components of a system or item of manufacture [...]. Perpetrators: James S. Bennett & Jay S. Lark Techknowledge, Inc. Palo Alto, CA