Framework to populate and maintain a service oriented architecture industry model repository

US8566358B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Eoin Lane · Littleton, US
• Mei Yang Selvage · Austin, US
• Magda M. Mourad · Yorktown Heights, US
• Harry Thomas Pendergrass · Beaverton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2009
• Grant date: Oct 22, 2013
• Expiry date: Sep 19, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for building a service oriented architecture industry model repository comprising: creating a meta-meta-meta model with a topic map based index; pre-populating the meta-meta-meta model with a topic map based index using the data from the physical asset repository and known relationships between topics, associations, and occurrences in topic maps within the meta model service; pre-populating an information model repository common meta-meta model comprising reusing a taxonomy specific to an industry vertical as a common ontology for the topic map based index; pre-populating the at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical from the physical asset repository; and pre-populating models of the at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical from the physical asset repository.