Patents by Inventor BETTINA LAUGWITZ

BETTINA LAUGWITZ has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11194441
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for implementing a process map navigation tool are provided herein. A process map provides a graphical user interface that represents a process. Icons represent process components or steps and are related using flow connectors to indicate an ordered relationship between the process components. Users can click on an icon and either initiate the corresponding process component or launch a menu of tasks relevant to the step. The icons can also include indicators to provide workflow information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Juergen Sattler, Marcel Kassner, Otfried von Geisau, Brit Panzer, Thomas Salvador, Bettina Laugwitz, Benjamin Braun
  • Publication number: 20210318791
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for implementing a process map navigation tool are provided herein. A process map provides a graphical user interface that represents a process. Icons represent process components or steps and are related using flow connectors to indicate an ordered relationship between the process components. Users can click on an icon and either initiate the corresponding process component or launch a menu of tasks relevant to the step. The icons can also include indicators to provide workflow information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: SAP SE
    Inventors: Juergen Sattler, Marcel Kassner, Otfried von Geisau, Brit Panzer, Thomas Salvador, Bettina Laugwitz, Benjamin Braun
  • Patent number: 8775952
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intelligent information navigation in a graphical user interface (GUI) where a sequence of items is generated and stored in a memory of a computer system. A number of graphical elements are displayed on a screen of a GUI, wherein each graphical element corresponds to an item of the sequence of items, and wherein the graphical elements are ordered according to the sequence. When requested, the graphical elements scroll in a chosen direction to gradually include a new graphical element into the screen at the direction of scrolling. Respectively, the scrolling could gradually exclude from the screen a graphical element at opposite direction. An item of the sequence of items could be selected as a currently active item. The displayed graphical elements are automatically scrolled to move the graphical element corresponding to the currently active item at a focal position within the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Bettina Laugwitz, Christopher Ronnewinkel, Susann Stieler, Farid Toubal-Seghir
  • Patent number: 8578271
    Abstract: Systems and methods for nested roadmap information navigation in a graphical user interface (GUI) where a sequence of items is generated and stored in a memory of a computer system. The sequence of items includes at least one compound item. A number of user interface (UI) elements are displayed in a GUI screen, wherein each UI element represents an item of the sequence of items, and wherein the UI elements are ordered according to the sequence of items. The displayed UI elements include a UI element representing a compound item of the sequence of items. The compound item could be selected as a currently active item. The UI element representing the selected compound item can gradually expand to display one or more new UI elements representing component items subordinate to the compound item. The first of the component items is automatically selected as a currently active item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Bettina Laugwitz, Christopher Ronnewinkel, Susann Stieler
  • Publication number: 20110145737
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intelligent information navigation in a graphical user interface (GUI) where a sequence of items is generated and stored in a memory of a computer system. A number of graphical elements are displayed on a screen of a GUI, wherein each graphical element corresponds to an item of the sequence of items, and wherein the graphical elements are ordered according to the sequence. When requested, the graphical elements scroll in a chosen direction to gradually include a new graphical element into the screen at the direction of scrolling. Respectively, the scrolling could gradually exclude from the screen a graphical element at opposite direction. An item of the sequence of items could be selected as a currently active item. The displayed graphical elements are automatically scrolled to move the graphical element corresponding to the currently active item at a focal position within the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: BETTINA LAUGWITZ, Christopher Ronnewinkel, Susann Stieler, Farid Toubal-Seghir
  • Publication number: 20110145738
    Abstract: Systems and methods for nested roadmap information navigation in a graphical user interface (GUI) where a sequence of items is generated and stored in a memory of a computer system. The sequence of items includes at least one compound item. A number of user interface (UI) elements are displayed in a GUI screen, wherein each UI element represents an item of the sequence of items, and wherein the UI elements are ordered according to the sequence of items. The displayed UI elements include a UI element representing a compound item of the sequence of items. The compound item could be selected as a currently active item. The UI element representing the selected compound item can gradually expand to display one or more new UI elements representing component items subordinate to the compound item. The first of the component items is automatically selected as a currently active item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: BETTINA LAUGWITZ, Christopher Ronnewinkel, Susann Stieler