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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2001
Richard R. Chipman, Reston, VA (US);
Alan Mankofsky, Falls Church, VA (US);
Harshavardhan M. Karandikar, Heidelberg, DE;
Gary Warren, Fairfax, VA (US);
Kenneth J. Laskey, Reston, VA (US);
Science Applications International Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A networked catalog search, retrieval, and information correlation and matching system is disclosed. The system allows suppliers to publish information in electronic catalogs, structure the information in an object oriented representation distributed across a network of computers, for example, the Internet. The system also enables customers to search and retrieve information on products and suppliers that match dynamically specified customer requirements. Through retrieving protocol compliant pages or other information, a search engine forwards retrieved pages to a database which sorts received information by the information's internal organization structure. By searching the information as stored in the knowledge base, a user may quickly retrieve the stored information as highly tailored to the user's search strategy. Also, additional tools operate on the stored information to, inter alia, organize design trades between selected elements where additional design and selection options are provided to each user. Further, the system supports product creation as formed of constituent parts. These products may then be used as parts to be formed into higher-level products.