Patent ID: 7471989

Claim:
A method for defining a set of electronic engineering requirements of an electronic product definition, comprising: providing at least one of a set of master requirements and a set of version requirements to be applied to the electronic product definition; referencing an electronic reference document from the at least one of the set of master requirements and the set of version requirements, the at least one of the set of master requirements and the set of version requirements including one or more particular engineering requirements to be applied to the electronic product definition, wherein the electronic reference document defines a process for accomplishing each of the one or more particular engineering requirements to be applied to the electronic product definition; and defining one or more callouts linked to at least one of the set of master requirements and the set of version requirements, wherein defining one or more callouts includes defining a callout configured to supercede a conflicting engineering requirement set forth in at least one of the set of master requirements and the set of version requirements, and wherein the one or more callouts are spatially qualified by an attached shape defining physical limits that the one or more particular engineering requirements are to affect.