Patent ID: 7814110
Filing Date: 2010-10-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product adapted to run on a computer for interrogating data attributes in a product development environment, comprising: a product development application that includes an interrogate data selection device; the product development application including at least one of a computer aided design software application and a manufacturing software application; a product development datastore that stores attribute data associated with at least one of a part item and an annotation item created by the product development application; a data interrogator module that is initiated by the interrogate data selection device and that retrieves the attribute data associated with the at least one of the part item and the annotation item from the product development datastore; a graphical user interface manager module that displays the attribute data in a user customizable presentation; a filter module displayable on a display unit that generates a user customizable data filter through a corresponding filter graphical user interface, the filter module being adapted to filter attribute data stored in the product development datastore concerning at least one of the computer aided software application and the manufacturing software application, and to generate the retrieved attribute data for display on the graphical user interface manager module; the user customizable filter enabling a user to: wherein the graphical user interface manager module exports the attribute data to an attribute file based on a predefined format.