Re-usable elements of a configuration model

US6988014B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Kraemer · Kaiserslautern, DE
• Andreas Steiner · Mannheim, DE
• Bernhard Teltscher · Speyer, DE
• Stein Wanvik · Wiesloch, DE
• Albert Haag · Bad Dürkheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 2003
• Grant date: Jan 17, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 17, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/087
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a multi-purpose configuration model. A computer program product, tangibly stored on a machine-readable medium, for defining a configuration model for a configurable product, includes instructions operable to cause a programmable processor to receive input. The product includes instructions to define, based on the input, a base component of the configuration model, the base component including information that describes the product. The product includes instructions to include, as a child object of the base component, a reused subcomponent that was previously defined, the reused subcomponent including information that describes the product.