Patents by Inventor Joachim Gaffga
Joachim Gaffga 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).
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Patent number: 9400998Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a message-based communication arrangement, an organizational center replication request, and a payment schedule business object.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Leif Albers, Jan Brink, Mario Andy Mueller, Johannes Bechtold, Herbert Boche, Paul Tanzer, Joachim Gaffga, Andre Von Rekowski, Fabian Guenther, Oliver Grande, Matthias Richter, Thomas Moser, Stefan Kiefer, Christine Hoerner, Christian Boehrer, Elena Gurevitch, Paola Sala, Benjamin Klehr, Pramod Sidlaghatta Jaiprakash, Jennifer Kroner
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Publication number: 20140006270Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a message-based communication arrangement, an organisational centre replication request, and a payment schedule business object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Leif Albers, Jan Brink, Mario Andy Mueller, Johannes Bechtold, Herbert Boche, Paul Tanzer, Joachim Gaffga, Andre von Rekowski, Fabian Guenther, Oliver Grande, Matthias Richter, Thomas Moser, Stefan Kiefer, Christine Hoerner, Christian Boehrer, Elena Gurevitch, Paola Sala, Benjamin Klehr, Pramod Sidlaghatta Jaiprakash, Jennifer Kroner
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Patent number: 8521838Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a communication system and/or an object identifier mapping business object.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Ulrich Bestfleisch, Thomas Vogt, Markus Wolf, Leif Albers, Jan Brink, Mario Andy Mueller, Johannes Bechtold, Herbert Boche, Paul Tanzer, Joachim Gaffga, Andre von Rekowski
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Patent number: 8407297Abstract: A system may include reception of an internet electronic mail message associated with a standards-compliant groupware object, and conversion of the internet electronic mail message to a message associated with the standards-compliant groupware object and compliant with a Web service message interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Markus Schmidt-Karaca, Peter Eberlein, Jurgen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga
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Patent number: 8396893Abstract: Various embodiments herein provide systems, methods, and software for unified configuration of multiple computer applications. Some embodiments include receiving input configuring a set of distinct computer applications in an application configuration environment. The application configuration environment may include a configuration repository that stores the settings of each distinct computer application. Such embodiments may further deploy the configuration settings from the configuration repository of the application configuration environment to at least one application execution environment including an instance of at least one of the set of distinct computer applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Joachim Gaffga, Juergen Sattler, Frank Markert, Robert Viehmann, Werner Wolf
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Publication number: 20130031203Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a communication system and/or an object identifier mapping business object.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: SAP AGInventors: Ulrich Bestfleisch, Thomas Vogt, Markus Wolf, Leif Albers, Jan Brink, Mario Andy Mueller, Johannes Bechtold, Herbert Boche, Paul Tanzer, Joachim Gaffga, Andre von Rekowski
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Patent number: 8296751Abstract: A software application program interface system and method is provided. A call message may be received that specifies a type of application program to be called from a calling application program that is executing on a computer system. It may be determined whether the computer system has any application programs of the specified type available for execution. If an application program of the specified type is available for execution on the computer system, an application call message may be provided in a format recognized by a particular available application programs of the specified type, and the particular available application program may be called using the application call message.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2005Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga
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Patent number: 8229964Abstract: A collaboration system providing a guided procedure framework for handling business workflows which include non-persistent data. Data is copied from a business object linked to a database to a temporary business object that is independent from the database. Fields of a form are populated with data from the temporary business object. A workflow object including the populated form and guided procedures is provided to the user who initiated the workflow. After the user makes changes to the workflow and the data, the workflow object is relayed to a next recipient specified as having a task for the workflow. When all of the tasks necessary for the workflow are complete, data from the workflow object is integrated into the database.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2005Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga
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Patent number: 8200703Abstract: A tool is proposed for supporting active documents. In one embodiment, an active document may be opened in an application program executing at a first computer, the active document being in a format recognized by the application program. Data relating to a first active document may be received data at the first computer from a user of the application program, and a search request based on the received data may be sent from the first computer to a second computer that maintains a plurality of data objects. In one embodiment, the application program at the first computer is unable to perform any functions with data objects at the second computer. The first computer may receive information relating to a result of the search request from the second computer and may store the information in the first active document.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Hilmar Demant, Joachim Gaffga
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Patent number: 8146102Abstract: This disclosure relates to application integration and, more particularly, groupware integration with enterprise applications. Various embodiments herein provide systems, methods, and software to integrate one or more computer applications with one or more groupware applications. Some embodiments include a groupware integration engine that receives, stores, and sends messages between computer applications and groupware clients applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2006Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventor: Joachim Gaffga
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Patent number: 8135659Abstract: The present subject mater relates computer system configuration and, more particularly, to system configuration comparison to identify process variation. Various embodiments described herein include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures to retrieve configuration information from a first system and a second system, apply a set of rules to the configuration information to identify process variants implemented in each of the first and second systems, and output a representation of process variant implementation differences between the first and second systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2008Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Joachim Gaffga, Juergen Sattler, Frank Markert, Robert Viehmann, Werner Wolf
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Patent number: 8131644Abstract: The subject matter relates to software application collaboration and, more particularly, collaboration between software applications via formular updates. Some such embodiments include systems, methods, and software to receive a definition of a content item from a first party, wherein the content item is operable within an application of a second party to cause data to be exported by the second party's application in a manner that can be imported to an application of the first party. Some such embodiments further include sending the content item to the second party.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga, Werner Wolf, Robert Viehmann, Frank Markert
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Patent number: 8108794Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for supporting text-based context links for application programs. An embodiment includes a first computer to maintain a database of data objects and a second computer to execute an application program that operates on a file having text elements. In an embodiment, the second computer is to execute a link program to access a data object on the first computer based on a user of the application program having used the application program to select a text element that is related to that data object.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Hilmar Demant, Joachim Gaffga
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Patent number: 8065661Abstract: The present subject mater relates to testing software application configurations and, more particularly, to a test engine. The various embodiments described and illustrated herein provide systems, methods, and software that maintain a configuration database in a memory, wherein the configuration database includes a representation of configuration settings of an application. Some such embodiments may further store a test engine module in the memory, wherein the test engine module includes a set of test cases, which when processed, test functionality of the application, wherein a test case is selected for execution as a function of one or more application configuration setting representations from the configuration database.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga, Robert Viehmann, Frank Markert, Steffen Riemann
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Patent number: 7912800Abstract: The present subject matter relates to configuring computer systems and, more particularly, to a computer system configuration deduction engine. Various systems, methods, and software are described. Some embodiments include determining a scoping question to ask as a function of a response to one or more other scoping questions, wherein possible responses to one or more scoping questions are associated with one or more application configuration packages. Some such embodiments further include selecting one or more application configuration packages for deployment as a function of one or more received scoping question responses.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga, Robert Viehmann, Frank Markert, Steffen Riemann, Peng Gao
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Patent number: 7853562Abstract: A system and method are provided for obtaining information from a data management system. The data management system may determine whether an event occurs triggering the update of this information and, if so, the updated information may then be read from a data object and transmitted from the data management system to the user without an online connection being established between the user and the data management system. In some embodiments, a request may be received from a user of a groupware application program subscribing to updates of identified information and, if the user later performs an action in the groupware application that triggers a request for an update of the identified information, a request for an update of the identified information may be transmitted from the groupware application to a data management system.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2005Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga
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Patent number: 7831637Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to configuring computer systems. Some embodiments include storing, on a computing device, at least a subset of an application configuration dataset of a target application, and storing, on the computing device, at least a subset of an application transaction dataset of the target application. Some embodiments also include providing a configuration application on the computing device to receive data and data modifications within the configuration dataset and the transaction dataset of the target application and uploading received data modifications of the configuration dataset and the transaction dataset to an application configuration environment of the target application. These and other embodiments provide the ability to copy an application configuration, or a configuration of an application to be deployed, on to a portable computing device and configure an application while not connected to the application or an application configuration environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga, Werner Wolf, Robert Viehmann, Frank Markert
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Patent number: 7831568Abstract: The present subject matter relates to configuring computer systems and, more particularly, to data migration. Various embodiments of the present subject matter provide systems, methods, and software to receive and store customer information including information detailing customer data from legacy applications. Some embodiments further determine a plan to migrate the customer data from the legacy applications to a target application as a function of the received customer information and the target application.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga, Werner Wolf, Robert Viehmann, Frank Markert
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Patent number: 7827528Abstract: The present subject mater relates to configuration of software applications and, more particularly, delta layering of software application content. The various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, and software to store a first application instance in a first layer and modify the first application instance, wherein the modifying includes a modification to one or more items of first application instance content. Some embodiments further store the first application instance modifications in a second layer, wherein the second layer can be deployed to a second application instance.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga, Werner Wolf, Robert Viehmann, Frank Markert
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Patent number: 7823124Abstract: The present subject mater relates to configuration of software applications and, more particularly, a configuration transformation layer. The various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, and software to instantiate a multilayer application, wherein each application layer includes configuration settings and executing a transformation engine to transform configuration settings between application layers as a function of one or more transformation schemas.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Juergen Sattler, Joachim Gaffga, Werner Wolf, Robert Viehmann, Frank Markert