Patent 7188333 was granted and assigned to Sprint on March, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method are provided which may be used to determine part compatibility of a selected product configuration. First, a determination is made as to whether a new part is compatible with one or more existing parts of the product configuration. Thereafter, a determination is made as to whether a replacement part exists for one of the existing incompatible part or the new part.