Automated configuration system and method
US6810401B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 10, 2000 |
| Grant date | Oct 26, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 30, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99945
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An automated configuration system (and method) is provided for facilitating the configuration of desired products, services, or other assemblages that require users to gather and assimilate disparate knowledge of makes, models, types, features, codes, and prices of the desired product/service to be configured. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, configuration is facilitated through interaction of a user with a frame engine that performs frame-based inferences to discern stored knowledge of a product (or the like), as supplemented by a rules-based inference system.
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