Patent Document ID: 9292821
Application ID: 14036209

Base Claim:
1. A method of consuming a Component Business Model (CBM) Heat Map for Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) based solution development, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a CBM Heat Map; at a first converting step, automatically converting the tabular representation of the CBM Heat Map to a Unified Modeling Language (UML) representation; and subsequent to the first converting step, at a second converting step, converting the UML representation of the CBM Heat Map to a first iteration of input for SOA solution development; wherein the first converting step comprises the steps of: (i) retrieving a plurality of CBM elements; (ii) processing the plurality of CBM elements; (iii) identifying a plurality of UML elements that respectively correspond to the plurality of CBM elements; and (iv) forming the plurality of UML elements into the UML representation of the CBM heat map.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the UML representation of the CBM heat map comprises: Business Competency, Business Component, Business Activity, and Business Services.