Patent ID: 7805461

Claim:
A database processing system comprising: an induction module configured to: i.) access specification data for at least one product from one or more vendor databases, ii) identify attributes of the specification data to be inducted into a frame-based knowledge tree by querying the one or more vendor databases table for the specification data regarding the attributes, and iii) determine a location within the frame-based knowledge tree to place any inducted attributes of the specification data, and further configured to present pre-defined questions about the specification data to a user to identify a set of SQL queries to be answered to construct the frame-based knowledge tree; a processor dimensioned and configured to enable user interaction with the induction module such that a frame-based knowledge tree is automatically constructed with the specification data in response to the user interaction, wherein the interaction comprises receiving input answers from the user in response to the pre-defined questions about the specification data provided to the user.