US 7,613,638 B2Granted

Automated systems and methods to support electronic business transactions for spare parts

AssigneeSiemens Corporate Research, Inc.

InventorsAmit Chakraborty, Zhijing Liu, Liang H. Hsu, Sudarshan Sampath, Jan Eggebrecht

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Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for implementing electronic business applications for managing and selling spare parts, wherein electronic catalogs of spare parts are used to present static and/or real-time spare parts data from disparate backend data sources in a uniform, integrated manner, and wherein business logic programs are provided to support transaction activities using the electronic catalogs of spare parts, such as navigating the catalog content, and retrieving static and/or real-time spare parts data and initiating spare parts sales with the backend business information systems and spare parts data source.

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Dependent claims

A method for implementing electronic business transactions for spare parts, comprising the steps of:

storing an electronic catalog of spare parts in an extensible, modality-independent application repository, wherein the electronic catalog comprises spare parts content derived from a plurality of disparate backend sources of spare parts data, and which is represented in an integrated, structured format;
receiving a user request for at least one spare part;
automatically selecting a plurality of additional service parts responsive to a filter condition and the user request for the at least one spare part;
and
rendering a user interface (UI) in response to the user request, wherein the UI comprises at least some of the spare parts catalog content including the automatically selected plurality of service parts from the extensible, modality-independent application repository for presentation to the user, and wherein the UI comprises at least one user-selectable function for enabling user-interaction with spare parts catalog content and initiating transactions with at least one backend source of spare parts data,
wherein rendering the UI comprises using the spare parts catalog content to generate a component list for a user-selected machine or system, wherein the component list comprises user selectable components and subcomponents of the machine or system represented in a hierarchical tree structure.

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Facts

Application: 11/216,852Filed 31 Aug 2005 · us provisional application
Priority: 25 Jan 2005
Published: US 2006/0167760 A127 Jul 2006
Granted: 3 Nov 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06Q 30/02
Commerce: marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
G06Q 30/0623
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: by investigating goods or services
G06Q 30/0635
Managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists: replenishment orders; recurring orders
G06Q 30/0643
Utilising user interfaces specially adapted for shopping: graphically representing goods, e.g. 3D product representation

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Application60/646,784Us provisional application · filed 25 Jan 2005
US 2006/0167760 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Jul 2006
US 7,613,638 B2This patent

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