Patent ID: 6689035
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: B41J,G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
A system for providing, for a product package, signals corresponding to a comprehensive model having comprehensive model parameters, the system comprising:a plurality of design stations associated with corresponding vendors each contributing to a different aspect of the comprehensive model relative to other vendors; interface means communicating with the plurality of design stations for generating signals to elicit, from a vendor of one design aspect of the comprehensive model, signals indicative of the comprehensive model parameters; a database communicating with the interface means for receiving comprehensive model parameter signals and storing signals corresponding to ordered comprehensive model parameters; and a comprehensive model signal generator for receiving said ordered comprehensive model parameter signals and computing therefrom comprehensive model command signals, said comprehensive model signal generator communicating with the interface means to permit said comprehensive model command signals to be available to vendors of other design aspects of the comprehensive model.