Patent ID: 7386832

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: generating a customizable product configurator, said generating comprising creating a customizable product class, wherein the customizable product class comprises a set of one or more attributes to define the customizable product class; adding a component product class to the customizable product class, wherein the component product class is a subclass of the customizable product class, and the component product class comprises customizable class rules; and mapping a customizable user interface (UI) to the customizable product class, wherein the customizable UI provides an access structure to the customizable product configurator, elements of the customizable UI access structure correspond to elements of the customizable product class, the customizable product class is configured to represent a customizable product, and the component product class is configured to represent one or more components of the customizable product; and generating a configurator user interface with HTML, Applets, and ActiveX programming languages, wherein said generating uses the customizable UI.