Patent Document ID: 9489654
Application ID: 14213113

Base Claim:
1. A bill of material (BOM) management system for processing a product data or configuration change of a product between a plurality of BOMs, each BOM with a corresponding functional domain, comprising: a plurality of product elements associated with each BOM, each product element defining at least one assembly, each assembly having at least one component of a corresponding assembly, both the assembly and the component being listed in a corresponding BOM as a product element of the product; a dynamic link that maps and connects each component of the assembly in a first BOM disposed in a first file server of a first functional domain to a corresponding component of the assembly in a different, second BOM disposed in a second file server of a second functional domain; a semantic network having a product knowledge that interacts with the corresponding BOM using a computing network connecting the first and second file servers, the product knowledge having information about the dynamic link; and a Decompose/Recompose/Multi-arrange (DRM) process module that manages product configuration information of the product, the DRM process module having a computer processor, executing computer-executable instructions, to perform a decompose process, a recompose process, and a multi-arrange process, wherein, using the computer processor, the DRM process module detects a changed product having the product data or configuration change of the product in each BOM of the corresponding functional domain, the DRM process module transmits product information relating to the product data or configuration change, including the dynamic link, from the first BOM to the second BOM so that each component of the changed product in the first BOM is linked to the corresponding component of the second BOM, wherein, using the computer processor, the DRM process module performs the decompose process by grouping the product elements based on the product knowledge of the semantic network, performs the recompose process by regrouping the product elements in a selected domain context, and performs the multi-arrange process by rearranging the product elements to propagate the product data or configuration change of a product structure in the first BOM of the first functional domain to another product structure in the second BOM of the second functional domain via the computing network, and wherein, using the computer processor, the DRM process module automatically creates and adds a new dynamic link in the product knowledge for the propagation for reflecting the same product data or configuration change of the changed product in the first BOM into the second BOM based on determining that the product data or configuration change of the changed product in the first BOM does not exist in the second BOM.

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Claim 12:
12. The BOM management system of claim 1 , wherein the DRM process module transmits product configuration information relating to a new dynamic link to other applications for propagating a product data change to the other BOMs in different domains.