Matching CAD objects with relevant manufacturer-and supplier-supplied content leveraging pay-for-placement search engine technology

摘要

A method integrated into a CAD application is disclosed for providing additional content related to CAD objects manipulated in the CAD application. Aspects of the present invention include automatically extracting a list of one or more attributes associated with the one or more CAD objects in response to a user interacting with the one or more CAD objects; sending the list attributes along with additional special keywords that identify that the CAD application is the source of the list to a pay-for-placement search engine; and receiving object content in a form that can be incorporated and displayed in the CAD application from the pay-for-placement search engine.