Methods and systems that provide unified bills of material

Details Methods and systems that provide unified bills of material Methods and systems that provide unified bills of material

2008-07-31

2011-10-04

Lie, Angela (Department: 2163)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database and file access

Query optimization

C707S736000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08032516

ABSTRACT:
A method for presenting a user with a unified bill of material from a plurality of bills of materials respectively stored in multiple databases is disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one keyword from the user, querying a taxonomy associated with the at least one keyword, utilizing a semantic based ontology model to generate queries for forwarding to the databases, the queries based on the taxonomy and the at least one keyword, receiving from the databases, a listing of the available information stored in the databases that includes the at least one keyword, presenting the listing to the user, receiving from the user, based on the listing, a selection of the information they wish to retrieve from the databases, generating a query requesting retrieval of the user selected information from the databases, receiving the retrieved information from the databases, and providing the retrieved information in an organized format.

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