Patents by Inventor Andre Stern

Andre Stern 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: 9477645
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to text viewing and markup, and in particular to systems and methods of active text markup. In particular, various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software to define text markup styles including associated actions to be performed against text marked up according to a defined markup style. Some embodiments include receiving marker input mapping a first markup style to an action and receiving text marker input associating the marker to a portion of document text. Such embodiments may further include receiving an action trigger to perform the action mapped to the marker associated to the portion of document text and performing the action based on the associated portion of document text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Marco Sachs, Andre Stern
  • Patent number: 8935147
    Abstract: A method of handling different languages in an object, such as a business object includes receiving a language selection indication within a business object instance interface. Data within the business object is displayed for at least one data field in the selected language. Edited data for at least one data field within the business object is received, and other language versions of the edited data in the at least one data field may be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Andre Stern, Christoph Kernke, Heinz Willumeit, Udo Arend
  • Publication number: 20140281880
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to text viewing and markup, and in particular to systems and methods of active text markup. In particular, various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software to define text markup styles including associated actions to be performed against text marked up according to a defined markup style. Some embodiments include receiving marker input mapping a first markup style to an action and receiving text marker input associating the marker to a portion of document text. Such embodiments may further include receiving an action trigger to perform the action mapped to the marker associated to the portion of document text and performing the action based on the associated portion of document text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Marco Sachs, Andre Stern
  • Publication number: 20120173969
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and products, including a computer implemented method that includes obtaining by at least one of a plurality of entities at least one master template available to the plurality of entities to generate documents from the at least one master template. The at least one master template includes at least one template area, with each of the at least one template area being associated with a respective data type. The method also includes generating a document by the at least one of the plurality of entities based, at least in part, on the at least one master template using entity-specific data associated with the at least one of the plurality of entities for the data type associated with the at least one template area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Klemens Schmid, Frank Erle, Saikrishna Gollapudi, Visvapriya Sathiyam, Zifeng Gu, Christoph Birkenhauer, Karsten Fanghaenel, Jun Wu, Pramod P. K., Praveen Srivastava, Sathish Babu Krishna Vihar, Andre Stern
  • Publication number: 20120166928
    Abstract: A program and corresponding method allow for the enablement of customizable extension fields into a form template, independent of the field type of the extension field. New extension fields corresponding to section headers of the form template can be created and added to a user interface. A new extension field can drive the form template and be added to all applicable section headers in the form template from the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Andre Stern, Saikrishna Gollapudi, Frank Erle, Uwe Schlarb, Visvapriya Sathiyam, Vinit Kumar, Ritesh Kumar Dokania, Christoph Birkenhauer, Stefan Baeuerle, Bernhard Thimmel, Matthias Lehr, Sathish Babu Krishna Vihar, Karsten Fanghänel
  • Publication number: 20090171655
    Abstract: A method of handling different languages in an object, such as a business object includes receiving a language selection indication within a business object instance interface. Data within the business object is displayed for at least one data field in the selected language. Edited data for at least one data field within the business object is received, and other language versions of the edited data in the at least one data field may be modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Andre Stern, Christoph Kernke, Heinz Willumeit, Udo Arend