US Patent 12020207 Canonical model for product development

Methods and systems disclosed herein describe a canonical model that sets forth a standardized schema that represents data entities and their relationships as a logical data structure across multiple business units. A schema validator module may validate application-specific schema against the canonical module. Additionally, legacy and/or existing applications may be upgraded, through a transformation module, to comply with the canonical model. The transformation module may transform application-specific data and/or information to the standardized schema, and vice versa, to ensure that legacy and/or existing applications may communicate with applications and/or processing engines that comply with the standardized schema.