Method and system for generating a global representation of a product definition

US9098854B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Jian Lin · Chelsea, US
• Bryan Roger Goodman · Dearborn, US
• James Beardslee · Grosse Pointe, US
• Veera V. M. L. Ganesh Babu Alla · Farmington Hills, US
• Martin Pipoly · Davisburg, US
• Ravindranatha Kundoor · Farmington Hills, US
• Gintaras Vincent Puskorius · Novi, US
• Yu-Ning Liu · Canton, US
• Melinda Kaye Hunsaker · Canton, US
• Yakov M. Fradkin · Farmington Hills, US
• David Mark Newton · Cologne, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 15, 2013
• Grant date: Aug 4, 2015
• Expiry date: Jan 30, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F8/20
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method or system that receives a product definition that includes a feature family having data defining one or more product features. The product definition including one or more corresponding rules defining one or more relationships between one or more product features. The method or system receiving input selecting one or more feature families of interest. The method or system identifying the one or more rules that provide a relationship connecting the one or more feature families to the selected feature families of interest. The method or system converting the identified rules to one or more positive logic rule groups. The method or system generating one or more global representations of the product definition by interacting the one or more positive logic rule groups to produce a result that defines the relationship between the interacted positive logic rule groups and storing the results that are determined as being valid.