Method and system for fabricating a product using a digital fabrication unit
AssigneeDeutsche Telekom AG
InventorsMarian TRINKEL, Jens-Oliver HAUPT, Frank LAMACK
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Abstract
A method for producing a product using a digital fabrication unit, in which a service for producing the product is started via a communication network via a communication device connected to the communication network, and the product is manufactured using the digital fabrication unit based on data describing production of the product made available to the fabrication unit.
Claims12
A method for producing a product using a digital fabrication unit, in which a service for producing the product is started via a communication network via a communication device connected to the communication network, and the product is manufactured using the digital fabrication unit based on data describing production of the product made available to the fabrication unit, wherein the method comprises:
- providing at least one data catalogue containing a plurality of products available for production in a database within the communication network, at least one data record comprising data describing product production being associated with each product of the plurality of products;
- displaying at least one product from a subset of all the products available for production on a display unit of the communication device based on a piece of information associated with the communication device, wherein the piece of information is a network identifier or a device identifier of the communication device or a locality;
- forming the subset based on the information associated with the communication device;
- displaying the at least one product selected from the subset using data describing product visualisation, wherein the data describing product visualization are transmitted via the communication network from a fabrication server to the communication device and have a smaller data volume than stored data describing product production;
- sending data describing production of a modification to at least one selected product are sent from the communication device to the fabrication server;
- combining data stored in the database describing product production of the at least one product and the data describing the production of the modification to form overall data describing production of the modified product;
- and
- producing the modified product using a fabrication unit based on the combined overall data.
(canceled)
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium having processor-executable instructions stored thereon for producing a product using a digital fabrication unit, in which a service for producing the product is started via a communication network via a communication device connected to the communication network, and the product is manufactured using the digital fabrication unit based on data describing production of the product made available to the fabrication unit, wherein the processor-executable instructions, when executed by the processor, facilitate the following:
- providing at least one data catalogue containing a plurality of products available for production in a database within the communication network, at least one data record comprising data describing product production being associated with each product of the plurality of products;
- displaying at least one product from a subset of all the products available for production on a display unit of the communication device based on a piece of information associated with the communication device, wherein the piece of information is a network identifier or a device identifier of the communication device or a locality;
- forming the subset based on the information associated with the communication device;
- displaying the at least one product selected from the subset using data describing product visualisation, wherein the data describing product visualization are transmitted via the communication network from a fabrication server to the communication device and have a smaller data volume than stored data describing product production;
- sending data describing production of a modification to at least one selected product are sent from the communication device to the fabrication server;
- combining data stored in the database describing product production of the at least one product and the data describing the production of the modification to form overall data describing production of the modified product;
- and
- producing the modified product using a fabrication unit based on the combined overall data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.