Patent ID: 7584191

Claim:
A method of modeling a technology entity comprising the steps of: generating a representation of said entity, said representation having user-associated attributes that are generally familiar to a user of said entity; generating a highly normalized common information model (CIM) of said entity, said CIM having functional object attributes that are generally unfamiliar to a user of said entity; generating a User Information Model (UIM) translation operator that is effective to specify one or more of said functional object attributes of said CIM given one or more of said user-associated attributes of said representation of said entity, by generating a respective instantiation of said UIM translation operator in accordance with a domain-focused view of said CIM that is one of a service management model, a transport resources management model and a communication protocol management model; storing the UIM translation operator in a storage device; and in response to said one or more of said user-associated attributes of said representation of said entity, causing said UIM translation operator to specify said one or more of said functional object attributes of said CIM, thereby modeling said technology entity in CIM, while interfacing with the CIM of said technology entity via said UIM.