Patent Document ID: 20150073753
Application ID: 14475904
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for designing an industrial product modeled with a binary tree having leaf nodes (LN) representing basic volumes, non-leaf nodes representing binary commutative operation combining volumes, the method comprising the steps of: performing a design operation triggering the adding or the removing of a leaf node (LN) of the binary tree; and idealizing the binary tree, including modifying the binary tree while maintaining the optimality of the tree (OBT) by minimizing number of weak leaf nodes (WLN), a weak leaf node (WLN) being a leaf node (LN) such that, when removed, the resulting binary tree is not optimal anymore, an optimal binary tree having an absolute value of a depth difference between any two leaf nodes (LN) equal to zero or one.