Bentley Systems, Inc.

Shaun Sewall

Keith A Bentley

Samuel W Wilson

Casey Mullen

Paul Connelly

Paul Connolly

In example embodiments, techniques are provided for decoupling user access to infrastructure models from proprietary software that maintains and updates the infrastructure models. A backend application may include an infrastructure modeling backend module that, among other functions, handles communication with an infrastructure modeling frontend module of a frontend application that provides user access to the infrastructure model, infrastructure modeling hub services that maintain repositories for the infrastructure model, and an infrastructure modeling native module that creates, performs operations upon, and updates local instances of a database that stores the infrastructure model. While the infrastructure modeling backend module may pass information obtained from the infrastructure modeling frontend module and infrastructure modeling hub services to the infrastructure modeling native module, it may be functionally separated from the software of the infrastructure modeling native module that understands how to maintain and update infrastructure models, including interacting with local instances of the database.

Techniques for decoupling access to infrastructure models

In one embodiment, techniques are provided for modeling infrastructure from a plurality of modeling perspectives using an intelligent model hierarchy. A repository model for the infrastructure is generated that serves as a root of the intelligent model hierarchy. The repository model includes a root subject and one or more child subjects. One or more information partitions are generated for each subject, each information partition being associated with a respective modeling perspective. One or more child models are associated with each information partition. The one or more child models each containing one or more infrastructure elements that express the modeling perspective of the information partition with which the child model is associated. The repository model and the one or more child models are maintained together in a repository, and infrastructure elements of a selected model may be displayed on demand in a user interface of a client.

Intelligent model hierarchy for infrastructure modeling

In various embodiments, techniques are provided for coordinating the assignment of codes to infrastructure elements in an infrastructure modeling software architecture. A chain of authority is provided from a code authority local to a client to a cloud-based code authority service. Further, a code is structured in three parts, including a code specification part identifying a code specification that indicates what information is encoded into the code and how it is encoded, a code scope part based on boundaries over which the code authority guarantees the code is unique, and a code value part with a unique value.

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Shaun Sewall