Patents by Inventor Jochen Merkel

Jochen Merkel 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).

  • Landscape transformation replication server
    Patent number: 8818947
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for data replication. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include providing an initial load of a data item from a source system to a target system, wherein the data item is associated with a trigger maintained at the source system; recording a change in a log, when a change to the data item at the source system causes the trigger to prompt the recording; extracting the change from the log to enable at least a confirmation of a consistency of the change; and providing the extracted change to a replication server configured to write the change to the target system. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gutberlet, Klaus Daschakowsky, Guenter Weber, Jochen Merkel
  • LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION REPLICATION SERVER
    Publication number: 20130124473
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for data replication. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include providing an initial load of a data item from a source system to a target system, wherein the data item is associated with a trigger maintained at the source system; recording a change in a log, when a change to the data item at the source system causes the trigger to prompt the recording; extracting the change from the log to enable at least a confirmation of a consistency of the change; and providing the extracted change to a replication server configured to write the change to the target system. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gutberlet, Klaus Daschakowsky, Guenter Weber, Jochen Merkel