Patents Assigned to SAP
  • Publication number: 20140013440
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a method of calculating a user license for a software application. The method may include compiling, by a server, user interface components associated with a business role; generating a logical set for each compiled user interface component, the logical set including at least one license type required to access the user interface component; applying an intersection process on the logical sets to generate a result set including at least one result license type that can provide access to all the compiled user interface components, and assigning at least one result license type as the user license for the business role.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Damandeep Thakur, Horst Schaude, Santosh Nagaraja
  • Publication number: 20140012830
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a system for asynchronous data verification processing. The processing may include receiving input data for verification. The processing may parse the input data into synchronous and asynchronous data verification tasks. The synchronous data verification tasks may include linking the input data to information stored in the system. The synchronous data verification tasks may further include checking the input data for typographical errors. The asynchronous data verification tasks may include comparing the input data to the linked system data, determining one or more differences between the input data and the linked system data that may be present, and reporting the differences to a user of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Pascal Hochwarth, Tanja Soehngen, Christian Boehrer, Benjamin Klehr, Paola Sala, Elena Gurevitch
  • Publication number: 20140012869
    Abstract: A search area to search business object instance(s), business object(s), node(s), and/or data types may be displayed. Business object instance(s), business object(s), node(s), and/or data type(s) based on search criteria specified in the search area may be displayed. In response to identification of a business object instance, a business object, a node, or a data type, information pertaining to the identified business object instance, business object, node, or data type may be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventor: Jan HRASTNIK
  • Publication number: 20140013415
    Abstract: The embodiments encompass an apparatus for generating security checks including a model editor configured to annotate at least one element in an architectural source model with security requirement information and countermeasure information. The security requirement information identifies the at least one element and provides a textual description of a corresponding security requirement, and the countermeasure information identifies the at least one element and indicates a countermeasure type to the corresponding security requirement. The apparatus also includes a code generation engine configured to generate a security check for the countermeasure information based on the countermeasure type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Antonino Sabetta, Michele Bezzi
  • Publication number: 20140012717
    Abstract: Methods and system consistent with the present invention facilitate the management of financial information. Such methods and systems may receive transaction data, store the transaction data as a line item in a day ledger, receive a request for a report, the request indicating a financial figure, such as an average daily balance, to be generated over a specified time interval, and generate, substantially in real-time or during run-time per the request, a report with the financial figure over the specified time interval using data from the day ledger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Danny PANNICKE, Artur BERLINGER, Georg DOPF
  • Patent number: 8626546
    Abstract: A process and system for the computer-implemented management of one or more target agreements with one or more parties to the agreement by means of a target agreement computer system are provided. Each of the target agreements may comprise at least one performance target, the performance target being a measurable target value to be achieved within a given or predetermined time span, where at the start of the time span an individual target agreement is defined and at the end of the time span the degree of achievement of each measurable target value and hence of each performance target is automatically determined and an incentive payment dependent thereon is calculated and distributed. A calculation module may be provided in which the definition of an assessment scale for determining the degree of achievement of the values is laid down, and a remuneration module may be provided in which the incentive payment belonging to an assessment resulting from the assessment module is laid down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Frank Westendorf, Michael Ihle, Lars Wiesner
  • Patent number: 8626702
    Abstract: Validation of an extraction process from an operation system to an on-line analytics and processing (“OLAP”) system may be achieved utilizing a function module that reads data from a queue and outputs the data in a structured form. A second function module may be used to perform an existence and uniqueness check on the data to determine the existence and/or uniqueness of various data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Markus Schlueter, Peter Karlheinz Zimmerer, Harald Fey
  • Patent number: 8626917
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method is provided for accessing a file node. In this method, a file access request specifying a file node to be accessed by way of a file system is received at a server from a client device. A counter is referenced to identify that the file node is being accessed in response to a different file access request. The counter is configured to track whether the file node is being accessed. The file node is provided to the client device when the counter indicates a termination of access to the file node resulting from the different file access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Ivaylo Iliev, Vencislav Dimitrov, Georgi Stanev
  • Patent number: 8626843
    Abstract: A selection of a communication scenario of multiple communication scenarios is received. Availability of content placeholders associated with the selected communication scenario is presented. A selection of a content placeholder from the content placeholders associated with the selected communication scenario is received. Based on the received selection of the content placeholder associated with the communication scenario, a mass-communication template including the content placeholder is generated. The mass-communication template is accessed to generate a first electronic communication. The first electronic communication is sent with first content based on a first state of a communication variable specified by the content placeholder of the mass-communication template. The mass-communication template is accessed to generate a second electronic communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventor: Frank Wittig
  • Patent number: 8626730
    Abstract: Data processing systems and methods are disclosed for providing a payment using a Web service. In one implementation, a first computer is used for entry of data values into respective data entry fields of an electronic data entry form. Further, an identifier of the Web service, such as the uniform resource locator (URL) of the Web service, is entered into the first computer. Next, the first computer initiates data processing for providing the payment that is to be performed by a second computer on the basis of the data values entered into the electronic data entry form. The initiation and/or performance or completion of the data processing is signaled to the Web service by sending corresponding signaling data, which includes payment advice data of the payment. The Web service is coupled to a third computer that receives a result of the data processing from the second computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventor: Achim Enenkiel
  • Patent number: 8626543
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods to trace an execution of a business process are disclosed. Business rules and corresponding business objects required to execute the business process are identified and rendered to receive an input. Based upon detecting a trigger to execute the business process, the business rules and the corresponding business objects are processed to compute a process-resultant for the business process. A process-path of the computed process-resultant is traced by tracing key-strings corresponding to the business objects involved in computing the process-resultant, to generate a trace-resultant. The trace-resultant is parsed by determining versioned business objects and business information of the key-strings, to derive a business definition for the traced business objects involved in computing the process-resultant. Based upon the business definition, a comprehensive trace-map comprising a compilation of the process-resultant to execute the business process is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Yingzhi Liu, Hans-Georg Beuter, Piyush Deora, Mirko Schnack, Carsten Ziegler
  • Patent number: 8627283
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a method for searching for a particular type of class file and a graphical user interface for displaying the names of the class files of the particular type are provided. A first class file is searched for a particular feature. If the class file contains the feature, the name of the class file is displayed. A second class file may then be searched and displayed if it contains the same feature. The names of all class files having the feature may then be displayed in a menu on the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface may also include a window displaying a list of features. When one of the features is selected, the names of all the class files having the feature are displayed in the menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Dimitar T. Giormov, Monika M. Kovachka-Dimitrova
  • Patent number: 8626878
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for a Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) provider having multiple logical MOM server instances. In an embodiment, the MOM provider having multiple logical MOM server instances is implemented on an application server. Each MOM server instance may include a session container to manage one or more sessions and a destination container to provide one or more destinations. In an embodiment, a globally unique identifier identifies each destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Andreas Wolber, Bernd Follmeg
  • Patent number: 8627326
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for quantitative measurements of an application and a computer. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method for determining whether to instantiate an application on one of a plurality of interconnected computers. Moreover, the method includes receiving information regarding the application to be instantiated on the computer; receiving information regarding the computer on which the application is to be instantiated; determining a dual measurement based on the received application information and the received computer information; and determining whether to instantiate the application based on the determined dual measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventor: Alexander Gebhart
  • Patent number: 8626526
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is described for asynchronous service-based communication. The method includes steps of generating events in an application layer of a computer software system, storing the generated events in a database table and scanning the database table by a process of a healthcare communication framework (HCF) at a time after the generated events are stored. The computer software system can run on a computer implementing the HCF and the generated events targeting service operations exported by another software system. During each scan the process is configured to group the events in the database table into packages based on a respective context of each event. For each package: consistency is checked for each event contained in the package, a consolidation logic is applied to consolidate events contained in the package, services operations associated with each event not being consolidated are found, and the service operations are invoked asynchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Kai Lemke, Ali Gerhard Tafazzoli-Yazdi, Mark Anthony Oshifeso, Wolfram Puechert
  • Patent number: 8627321
    Abstract: Aspects of the current subject matter can provide a background job repository that stores a background job template specifying a background job comprising a maintenance task that affects a customized software platform. The background job template can also include metadata defining a purpose of the background job, triggering information indicating when the background job should be executed, and a prerequisite feature of the customized software platform that indicates a need for the background job in the customized software platform. A previous set of background jobs that run in the customized software platform can be updated to a current set by comparing the previous set with the background job template and including the background job in the current set of background jobs when the customized software platform includes the prerequisite feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Jan Teichmann, Andreas Wolber, Jens Berger, Bare Said
  • Publication number: 20140006356
    Abstract: A computer system maintains a repository of software products. The software products include a plurality of business processes, and each business process includes a business object. The system maintains a plurality of archiving objects, and further maintains a mapping of each business process to at least one business object, a mapping of each business object to at least one related database table, and a mapping of each database table to at least one related archiving object. The system receives a selection of a business process for which data is to be archived, and uses the mapping of the each business process to the at least one business object, the mapping of the each business object to the at least one database table, and the mapping of the each database table to the at least one archiving object to determine the database tables to transmit to the archiving objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventor: Dominik Held
  • Publication number: 20140006000
    Abstract: A method for performing response time measurements may include defining rules for response time collecting in a metadata object model. The response time measurements defined at the metadata object level may be may be collected during a user session that uses one or more metadata object models in accordance with modeled information in an object model. The collected response time measurements may be transformed to modeled response time data. The modeled response time data may be associated with the object model and used to generate a report of the response time measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Bare SAID, Frank BRUNSWIG, Frank JENTSCH
  • Publication number: 20140006106
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software for adaptive in-memory customer and customer account classification. Some such embodiments include receiving a rule identifying data attributes that contribute to at least one outcome with regard to at least one product and applying the rule to a dataset replicated from a transactional data environment to an in-memory data environment. Application of the rule results in segmentation of at least one of customers and customer accounts likely to have each of the at least one outcomes, the replicated dataset including customer data. Such embodiments may then output data representative of the segmented at least one of customers and customer accounts likely to have each of the at least one outcomes. The in some embodiments, the rule is applied to define a further rule which may be stored and later utilized to perform further data segmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Denis Malov, Zhibin Cao
  • Publication number: 20140006723
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adaptively configuring a cache includes: implementing a cache adaptation agent in a system that has multiple applications, the system including a memory and a disk storage, wherein the system creates a cache in the memory for use by each of the applications; monitoring, by the cache adaptation agent, the cache in use by at least one of the applications, the monitoring covering at least a size of the cache used by the application, how many objects are in the application's cache, and sizes of the objects in the application's cache; and configuring, by the cache adaptation agent and based on the monitoring, at least one of the cache and system behavior regarding at least one of the applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Ariel Tammam, Roye Cohen