Patent ID: 9268883
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A product management system for managing variations in a product structure for a product, the product management system comprising: a processor; a data manager, executed by the processor, to manage the variations in the product structure for the product using a model; a visualizer, executed by the processor, to visually present, in a graphical user interface, information for an object selected from one of a master object in the group of master objects and a configuration object in the group of configuration objects, wherein the visualizer is further configured to: wherein the row has a fifth column, and wherein the visualizer is further configured to visually present in the fifth column level information for the reusable definition object, and wherein the level information comprises a relationship between the reusable definition object and a root object of a hierarchical structure to which the reusable definition object belongs.