Patent 7823121 was granted and assigned to The Mathworks on October, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a graphical modeling environment, a template composite signal is provided. The template composite signal groups a plurality of data signals for which one of the attributes for data interpretation are unspecified and provides associated identifying information that identifies the type of data in the template composite signal. Models are simplified by using template composite signals for passing data between graphical objects representing functional entities, without the need for de-grouping the template composite signal. Code may then be generated for the template composite signal.