Patent ID: 11861301
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for grouping parts, the method comprising:
generating, by a computer system, sets of unigrams from text in part lists for parts in a family of parts using natural language processing, wherein a set of unigrams in the sets of unigrams represent components for a part in the parts;
creating, by the computer system, a document term matrix using the sets of unigrams, wherein the document term matrix describes a presence of components in the parts;
removing, by the computer system, a number of unigrams from the document term matrix that has occurrences in the document term matrix that are greater than a common design threshold, wherein removing the number of unigrams from the document term matrix forms a processed document term matrix and wherein the common design threshold identifies a level of occurrence not useful in differentiating the parts from each other;
clustering, by the computer system, the parts into groups using the processed document term matrix; and
graphically displaying, by the computer system, the groups in a graphical user interface on a display system,
wherein the groups are displayed in a constellation diagram in which points connected by edges, wherein the points represent parts and graphical indicators associated with the points represent groupings of the parts and lengths of edges indicates a similarity of nodes connected by the edges.