Patent ID: 8032516
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for presenting a user with a unified bill of material from a plurality of bills of materials stored in a plurality of databases, said method comprising: receiving at least one keyword from the user; querying a taxonomy associated with the at least one keyword; utilizing a semantic based ontology model to generate queries for forwarding to the databases, the queries based on the taxonomy and the at least one keyword by composing semantic primitives from principal knowledge elements within a computer readable model, the knowledge elements including at least one of meaning associated with a context such as one or more of business values, steps, and parts to produce, expression representing explicit knowledge, associated with a specific context, and symbol representing explicit knowledge, associated with a common sign for communication among semantics and providing a mechanism to combine or integrate dissimilar concepts, relationships, and knowledge; receiving from the databases, a listing of the available information stored in the databases that includes the at least one keyword; presenting the listing to the user; receiving from the user, based on the listing, a selection of the available information for retrieval from the databases; generating a query requesting retrieval of the user selected information from the databases; receiving the retrieved information from the databases; and providing the retrieved information to the user in an organized format.