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Martin Pipoly

Gintaras Vincent Puskorius

Bryan Roger Goodman

Melinda Kaye Hunsaker

Yu-Ning Liu

David Mark Newton

Yakov M Fradkin

Veera V M L Ganesh Babu Alla

Ravindranatha Kundoor

James Beardslee

Jian Lin

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.

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

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