Patent ID: 7716639

Claim:
A system for facilitating the creation of design specifications, said system comprising: a specification creation computer; software executing on said specification creation computer which displays to a user a requirements document; software executing on said specification creation computer which receives an indication from the user of a selected portion of the requirements document; a storage locations database having stored thereon data indicative of a plurality of storage locations in a processed specification into which data may be entered; software executing on said specification creation computer which, based at least in part upon the indication from the user of the selected portion of the requirements document, retrieves from the storage locations database a list of possible storage locations corresponding to the selected portion of the requirements document; software executing on said specification creation computer which displays to the user the list of possible storage locations corresponding to the selected portion of the requirements document; software executing on said specification creation computer which receives an indication from the user of a selected storage location; software executing on said specification creation computer which receives an indication from the user of data selected by the user in the requirements document to be stored in the selected storage location; and software executing on said specification creation computer which stores the selected data in the selected storage location in the processed specification.