Automated configuration system and method
US7461049B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 25, 2003 |
| Grant date | Dec 2, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 25, 2025 |
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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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