Patent ID: 8180750

Claim:
A support model integration system for enabling the communication of health management information to and from a client, the system comprising: at least one processor; a database for holding health management data useable by a plurality of differing clients; a plurality of client tools for connecting a plurality of different clients to the system, each one of the client tools being able to at least one of publish information to the database or request information from the database; an engineering model views module controlled and executed by the processor in communication with the client tools for providing an interface between each said client tool and said database, the engineering model views module operating to present read and write views to each one of the client tools in accordance with specific view requirements of each said client tool, and further performing mapping and translating on requests for data from the database by each said client tool so that data communicated to each said client tool is presented in accordance with a specific view required by each said client tool; and wherein the engineering model views module further publishes data received from each said client tool to the database by operating on an engineering view representation being used with each specific said client tool; and an integrated support information model interposed between said data base and said engineering model views module, that forms a logical and semantic specification for implementing a plurality of machine processable axioms and constraints to enable syntactic and semantic constraints relating to be used by each said client tool when accessing said information from said database, and also to be used by said system when processing new information from said client device that needs to be stored in said data base.