Patent US 8,600,735

Computer based methods, systems and interfaces for analyzing machine readable data repositories having text documents, and for generation of new product specifications, for evaluation of these specifications and for the generation of new product designs and products therefrom. Language analysis of the data repository results in a list of properties of a product being properties to be varied linked to a list of functions of the product. The property statements can be first parts of speech such as adjectives, or adjectival phrases or adjectival statements being definitions of properties of a product. The function statements can be second parts of speech such as verbs, or verb-like phrases or statements being definitions of functions. The list of property statements, optionally with related first parts of speech, linked to the respective function statements optionally with related second parts of speech are stored as a database of indexed property statements/function statement tuples.