Patent ID: 7209930

Claim:
A parts check list preparing system, comprising: a means to store a database comprising the graphics data of a layout of a part, and the parts data of the part; a means to fetch the graphics data of a part necessary for preparing a parts check list that shows parts information in a tabular form; a means to cause a layout reproduced from the graphics data of the part to be presented on display; a means to select the part in the layout; a means to fetch the parts data corresponding with the graphics data of the selected part from the database; a means to arrange the parts data into a list, and to cause the list to be presented on display together with the layout; a means to automatically prepare the parts check list based on the parts list; a means for ordering the part by transmitting the prepared parts check list based on the parts list, a network server and a network terminal connected with each other via a network, the network server comprising: (A) a server's memory means to store the title of layouts of parts, the graphics data of the layouts, and the parts data of those parts; (B) a layout title acquiring means to acquire the title of a layout arbitrarily chosen by the network terminal; (C) an information searching means to search through the server's memory means for the graphics data corresponding with the acquired title of the layout, and the parts data of the part reproduced from the graphics data of the layout title; (D) an output delivering means to deliver, as output, the searched graphics data and parts data to the network terminal, and to cause the display device of the network terminal to present the layout reproduced from the graphics data, and the network terminal comprising: (a) a terminal's memory means to store the graphics data and parts data provided by the network server; (b) a layout data acquiring means to acquire the graphics data of a part selected from the layout displayed on the terminal's display device; (c) a parts list preparing means to search through the terminal's memory means for the parts data corresponding with the graphics data just acquired; (d) a parts list delivering means to deliver the parts data thus acquired to the display device, and to insert the parts data into the parts list displayed together with the layout; and (e) a parts check list preparing means to prepare a parts check list based on the part data in the parts list, (f) a duplicate acquisition preventing means to cause, if the network terminal selects the parts data of any one of plural parts, and the parts data of an assembly composed of those plural parts, the network terminal to obtain only the parts data of the assembly.