Patent ID: 11928400
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for information management in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) modeling, the method comprising:
providing a collaborative environment including a computing system in communication via a network with a client device associated with a first user, the computing system having a processor and memory, the memory storing an MBSE model;
accessing, by the processor, metadata associated with a plurality of engineering elements in the MBSE model, wherein the plurality of engineering elements relate to production of a product or service, wherein the metadata comprises tags for the plurality of engineering elements, wherein the plurality of engineering elements comprises shareable elements and unshareable elements, wherein tags assigned to shareable elements indicate respective engineering elements that are shareable outside of an organization, and wherein tags assigned to unshareable elements indicate respective engineering elements that are subject to export controls or include proprietary information not to be shared outside of the organization;
determining, by the processor from the accessed metadata, which of the plurality of engineering elements are shareable elements and which are unshareable elements by analyzing the tags associated with the plurality of engineering elements;
generating, by the processor, an open version of the MB SE model from a restricted version of the MBSE model by stripping each unshareable element out of the restricted version of the MBSE model such that the open version of the MBSE model is void of the unshareable elements;
sending, via the network, the open version of the MBSE model to the first user outside of the organization, the first user not having authorization to access the restricted version;
receiving, via the network, an updated open version of the MBSE model based on an update to the open version of the MBSE model from the first user, the update including a change made to a shareable element in the open version of the MBSE model, the change made to the shareable element including an element comprising a tag that stops the tagged element from being shared in the open version of the MBSE model and the restricted version of the MBSE model;
generating, from the updated open version of the MBSE model, an updated restricted version of the MBSE model, the updated restricted version of the MBSE model comprising each of the unshareable elements, each of the shareable elements, and the change made to the shareable element by the first user without the tagged element; and
displaying the updated restricted version of the MB SE model to a second user inside of the organization, the second user having authorization to access the restricted version and the updated restricted version of the MBSE model.