Method and apparatus for comparing process designs

摘要

This invention relates to a data comparison tool, method and computer program product for analyzing a set of data, the set of data being derived from an original set of data, comprising: comparing the derived set of data with the original set of data; generating a hyperlink to represent each difference between the derived and original data set, each difference being a changed item, an additional item, or a missing data item; providing at least one agent that is activated on selection of the hyperlink to operate on the changed, additional or missing data item; whereby a list of hyperlinks is generated to represent all the differences of the derived and original data set and selecting one of the hyperlinks will execute an agent to operate on a single data item in one of the data sets. An editor agent is provided for allowing the user to confirm or make further changes to the data item. An undo agent is provided for undoing the difference wherein a changed item is changed back, an additional item is removed and a missing item is replaced.

主权项

1. A method of analysing a set of data, the set of data being derived from an original set of data, comprising:
comparing the derived set of data with the original set of data; generating a markup language statement for each change, addition, and removal of a data item in the derived set of data; generating two or more hyperlinks in each markup language statement, at least one of the two or more hyperlinks being represented by a word identifying a type of difference; providing an agent that is activated upon selection of one of the two or more hyperlinks to operate on the changed, added or removed data item; and displaying a comparison result including all generated markup statements as an expandable tree.