Patent ID: 9009074
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a business application for managing and selling spare parts associated with a machine unit, the method comprising: providing an application server comprising an application database; receiving, by the application server, a catalog template specification of the machine unit and a filter condition corresponding to a maintenance procedure from a client device, wherein the application server and client device communicate via a commonly connected network backbone; applying the catalog template specification to a plurality of disparate spare parts data sources to automatically extract spare parts data including at least one text file from a real-time sales spare parts data source and at least one image file and text file from a static engineering spare parts data source according to the catalog template specification; generating spare parts catalog content by integrating the at least one text file from the real-time sales spare parts data source and the at least one image file and text file from the static engineering spare parts data source into a common structure according to the catalog template specification and generating hyperlinks between the at least one image file and text file from the static engineering spare parts data source according to a hyperlink specification; generating a spare parts package including one or more spare parts, wherein the one or more spare parts are utilized in the maintenance procedure; and publishing a subset of the spare parts catalog content corresponding to the one or more spare parts included in the spare parts package to the application database.