Patents by Inventor Gregor Berg

Gregor Berg 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: 11972272
    Abstract: An application server provides an application to client devices. Users of the client devices interact with the application to perform a business process. Data regarding user interactions with the application is transmitted from the client devices to the application server. Based on an analysis of the received data, a bot generation server generates a bot to automate a process step. The bot generation server provides a heatmap user interface (UI) that provides information regarding the process steps. Using the heatmap UI, the administrator selects a process step for automation. In response to the selection, the hot generation server identifies, based on the observed behavior, relationships between input fields, typical values for input fields, typical order of data entry into input fields, or any suitable combination thereof. Based on the identified patterns, the hot generation server generates a bot to automate some or all of the process step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Andre Niklas Wenz, Bernhard Hoeppner, Thomas Bodner, Olga Cherepanova, Lasse Steffen, Jan Siebert, David Hennemann, Pascal Schulze, Konstantin Dobler, Kris-Fillip Kahl, Paul Udo Beneke, Philipp Bernhard Hoberg
  • Patent number: 11954622
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for creating and managing an interactive process graphs which expedite performance of a multi-user enterprise process between user interfaces and the underlying systems. In one example, a method may include generating a process graph of a user interface process, wherein the process graph comprises nodes corresponding to activities and vertices between the nodes identifying dependencies among the activities, embedding input fields in the nodes of the process graph, embedding, via the process graph, an identifier of a current location of a data object within an instance within the user interface process, and displaying an instance of the process graph corresponding to the instance of the user interface process which includes the embedded input fields in the nodes and the identifier of the current location of the data object within the instance of the user interface process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Andre Wenz, Sushovan Chattaraj, Lukas Egger, Bernhard Hoeppner
  • Publication number: 20240012657
    Abstract: The present application is directed to a system which offers a turnkey solution (BPaaS) for running an organization business process via a third-party provider. In one example, the method may include generating a first plurality of finite state automata corresponding to a plurality of event sequences of a software process of a user, obtaining a second plurality of finite state automata based on a second plurality of event sequences of a host process of a provider, establishing channels of communication between the first and second plurality of finite state automata, executing the first and second plurality of finite state automata in parallel via the established channels, and determining whether the user process is compatible with the host process of the provider based on results of the execution, and displaying a result of the determination via a user interface of a computing system associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Ralf Teusner, Bernhard Hoeppner, Michael Perscheid, Stefan Krumnow
  • Publication number: 20230229996
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for creating and managing an interactive process graphs which expedite performance of a multi-user enterprise process between user interfaces and the underlying systems. In one example, a method may include generating a process graph of a user interface process, wherein the process graph comprises nodes corresponding to activities and vertices between the nodes identifying dependencies among the activities, embedding input fields in the nodes of the process graph, embedding, via the process graph, an identifier of a current location of a data object within an instance within the user interface process, and displaying an instance of the process graph corresponding to the instance of the user interface process which includes the embedded input fields in the nodes and the identifier of the current location of the data object within the instance of the user interface process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Andre Wenz, Sushovan Chattaraj, Lukas Egger, Bernhard Hoeppner
  • Publication number: 20220188283
    Abstract: Data is gathered from a log file on a first application server, a log file on a second application server, a database on a database server, or any suitable combination thereof. By correlating the data from different sources, XP-Functions that execute in sequence on a single application server are identified and combined into a sequence referred to as an executable process chain (XP-Chain). The automatic process discovery server reconstructs end-to-end processes out of XP-Chains, even when the XP-Chains are executed on different application servers, based on log files and database data. A test script may be generated for an identified end-to-end process. By running the test script, proper functioning of the end-to-end process may be confirmed. Existing test scripts may be disabled for a formerly identified end-to-end process that is no longer found to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Natallia Jamieson, Gregor Berg, Andre Niklas Wenz, Sean Leonard, Chirag Poddar
  • Publication number: 20210216339
    Abstract: An application server provides an application to client devices. Users of the client devices interact with the application to perform a business process. Data regarding user interactions with the application is transmitted from the client devices to the application server. Based on an analysis of the received data, a bot generation server generates a bot to automate a process step. The bot generation server provides a heatmap user interface (UI) that provides information regarding the process steps. Using the heatmap UI, the administrator selects a process step for automation. In response to the selection, the bot generation server identifies, based on the observed behavior, relationships between input fields, typical values for input fields, typical order of data entry into input fields, or any suitable combination thereof. Based on the identified patterns, the bot generation server generates a bot to automate some or all of the process step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Andre Niklas Wenz, Bernhard Hoeppner, Thomas Bodner, Olga Cherepanova, Lasse Steffen, Jan Siebert, David Hennemann, Pascal Schulze, Konstantin Dobler, Kris-Fillip Kahl, Paul Udo Beneke, Philipp Bernhard Hoberg
  • Publication number: 20210158268
    Abstract: Information about time consumed in a task is combined with employment data about users performing the task to determine an associated cost of time. Based on the cost of performing the task and a predicted cost of automating the task, a predicted savings resulting from automation of the task is determined. From among multiple processes that are available to be automated, a recommendation is made to automate the task that benefits from the greatest savings. A user interface may be presented that identifies multiple processes and the automation savings available for each one. In response to an interaction with the user interface, bots are generated to automate the steps of a process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Andre Niklas Wenz, Martin Zuber, Adelya Alisherovna Fatykhova, Haramrit Kaur Mertz, Carsten Henning Bormann
  • Patent number: 10977058
    Abstract: An application server provides an application to client devices. Users of the client devices interact with the application to perform a business process. Data regarding user interactions with the application is transmitted from the client devices to the application server. Based on an analysis of the received data, a bot generation server generates a bot to automate a process step. The bot generation server provides a heatmap user interface (UI) that provides information regarding the process steps. Using the heatmap UI, the administrator selects a process step for automation. In response to the selection, the bot generation server identifies, based on the observed behavior, relationships between input fields, typical values for input fields, typical order of data entry into input fields, or any suitable combination thereof. Based on the identified patterns, the bot generation server generates a bot to automate some or all of the process step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Andre Niklas Wenz, Bernhard Hoeppner, Thomas Bodner, Olga Cherepanova, Lasse Steffen, Jan Siebert, David Hennemann, Pascal Schulze, Konstantin Dobler, Kris-Fillip Kahl, Paul Udo Beneke, Philipp Bernhard Hoberg
  • Publication number: 20200401430
    Abstract: An application server provides an application to client devices. Users of the client devices interact with the application to perform a business process. Data regarding user interactions with the application is transmitted from the client devices to the application server. Based on an analysis of the received data, a bot generation server generates a bot to automate a process step. The bot generation server provides a heatmap user interface (UI) that provides information regarding the process steps. Using the heatmap UI, the administrator selects a process step for automation. In response to the selection, the bot generation server identifies, based on the observed behavior, relationships between input fields, typical values for input fields, typical order of data entry into input fields, or any suitable combination thereof. Based on the identified patterns, the bot generation server generates a bot to automate some or all of the process step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Andre Niklas Wenz, Bernhard Hoeppner, Thomas Bodner, Olga Cherepanova, Lasse Steffen, Jan Siebert, David Hennemann, Pascal Schulze, Konstantin Dobler, Kris-Fillip Kahl, Paul Udo Beneke, Philipp Bernhard Hoberg
  • Patent number: 10812627
    Abstract: An application server provides an application or set of applications to one or more client devices. One or more users of the client devices interact with the applications to perform a business process. Data is stored on one or more of the client devices that tracks user interactions with the application. The data is transmitted from the client devices to the application server for analysis. Data from multiple client devices is correlated to enable analysis of a complex business process. As a result of the analysis, bottlenecks may be identified based on a particular process step taking a long time to complete or receiving repeated re-entry of data. The solution is automated and scalable, allowing for analysis of an entire business process landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Andre Niklas Wenz, Bernhard Hoeppner, Frank Feinbube, Florian Moritz, Florian Haupt
  • Publication number: 20200287992
    Abstract: An application server provides an application or set of applications to one or more client devices. One or more users of the client devices interact with the applications to perform a business process. Data is stored on one or more of the client devices that tracks user interactions with the application. The data is transmitted from the client devices to the application server for analysis. Data from multiple client devices is correlated to enable analysis of a complex business process. As a result of the analysis, bottlenecks may be identified based on a particular process step taking a long time to complete or receiving repeated re-entry of data. The solution is automated and scalable, allowing for analysis of an entire business process landscape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Gregor Berg, Andre Niklas Wenz, Bernhard Hoeppner, Frank Feinbube, Florian Moritz, Florian Haupt