Patent ID: 9626471
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for filtering components from a logical component hierarchy, said method using a computing device having a processor and a memory, said method comprising: storing, in the memory, the logical component hierarchy including a plurality of components and sub-components representative of a system to be assembled, wherein the logical component hierarchy includes a plurality of ancestor-descendant relationships between the plurality of components and sub-components; identifying, in the memory, an exclusion filter associated with the logical component hierarchy, wherein the exclusion filter includes at least one of an ancestor and a descendant of the a sub-component to be removed; comparing, by the processor, a sub-component of the logical component hierarchy and at least one of an ancestor and a descendant of the sub-component with the exclusion filter; identifying the sub-component for exfiltration based on the comparison of the sub-component and at least one of an ancestor and a descendant of the sub-component with the exclusion filter; filtering the sub-component out of the logical component hierarchy; and displaying at least part of the filtered logical component hierarchy.