Use of Associate Memory Learning Agent Technology to Identify Interchangeable Parts in Parts Catalogs
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Abstract
The present invention provides a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for identifying interchangeable parts in parts catalogs. In one illustrative embodiment, a set of catalogs is searched for first attributes for a set of parts using an intelligent agent. The intelligent agent compares the first attributes for the set of parts to a set of second attributes for a selected part. A weight is assigned to each of the first attributes based on whether each of the first attributes is correlated to an attribute in the set of second attributes. Each part in the set of parts is ranked using the weight assigned to each attribute in the first attributes. A set of interchangeable parts is identified using the ranking for each part in the set of parts.
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38 Claims
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21. A computer implemented method for identifying interchangeable parts, the computer implemented method comprising:
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identifying a set of attributes for each part in a set of parts; assigning a rank to each part in the set of parts based on a degree of correlation between the set of attributes for a part in the set of parts and a set of identified attributes to form a set of ranked parts; and identifying a set of interchangeable parts from the set of parts using the set of ranked parts. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An apparatus for identifying interchangeable parts, the apparatus comprising:
a relational database system in communication with an associative memory, wherein the relational database system is configured to identify a set of attributes for each part in a set of parts, assign a rank to each part in the set of parts based on a degree of correlation between the set of attributes for a part in the set of parts and a set of identified attributes to form a set of ranked parts, and identify a set of interchangeable parts from the set of parts using the set of ranked parts. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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