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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