A purpose is an abstract description or characterization of any of a large number of situations.

They do not help in proving a program correct with respect to some specification expressed in terms of a more abstract description of its intended behaviour.

Nevertheless, this more abstract description has not prevented the office holders from speaking out and playing important roles on global issues to various degrees.

Microsoft urged the court to consider software to be like a blueprint: an abstract description of how to carry out a particular task.

Clearly, an abstract description of how a machine works cannot be a "component" of that machine.

Messages are abstract descriptions of the data being exchanged, and port types are abstract collections of supported operations.

State diagrams are used to give an abstract description of the behavior of a system.

The OSI reference model is an abstract description for layered communications and computer network protocol design.

Boolean algebra has been fundamental in the development of computer science and is yet the basis of the abstract description of digital circuits.

At least with those patents, the invention's essential purpose is fairly clear from the title and abstract description.