Patents by Inventor Markus Viol
Markus Viol 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: 11914637Abstract: An application executing on a pod may generate a content request for a particular version of content. The application sends a request including an identifier of the version of the content to a repository in a cluster of pods. The repository determines, using the identifier, whether the version of the content is stored in the cluster or stored at a database in a different cluster. The application receives a response from the repository that may indicate that the version of the content is stored in the cluster and the response may include an identifier of a content pod storing the version of the content. The application sends the content request to the content pod storing the version of the content and may receive the version of the content without querying the database for the version of the content.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Markus Viol, Rick Weigel
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Publication number: 20240028640Abstract: An application executing on a pod may generate a content request for a particular version of content. The application sends a request including an identifier of the version of the content to a repository in a cluster of pods. The repository determines, using the identifier, whether the version of the content is stored in the cluster or stored at a database in a different cluster. The application receives a response from the repository that may indicate that the version of the content is stored in the cluster and the response may include an identifier of a content pod storing the version of the content. The application sends the content request to the content pod storing the version of the content and may receive the version of the content without querying the database for the version of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Markus Viol, Rick Weigel
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Patent number: 11797552Abstract: Techniques and solutions are described for retrieving metadata artefacts from a repository that includes multiple instances of a metadata artefact. The instances can have at least some different content. Metadata artefacts are associated with metadata describing group, searching, or selection criteria, such as one or more of a particular solution, tenant, layer, or version. A request for a metadata artefact can include at least one value for one or more of the criteria, which in turn can be used to identify one or more relevant metadata artefacts. Identifiers for, or content of, relevant metadata artefacts can be returned in response to the request. Fallback logic can be used to determine at least in part what metadata artefacts are relevant to a request, or how to return or process request results.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Rick Weigel, Markus Viol, Eugen Resch, Rashmi Nagendra, Aditya Bhatia
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Publication number: 20230104441Abstract: Techniques and solutions are described for retrieving metadata artefacts from a repository that includes multiple instances of a metadata artefact. The instances can have at least some different content. Metadata artefacts are associated with metadata describing group, searching, or selection criteria, such as one or more of a particular solution, tenant, layer, or version. A request for a metadata artefact can include at least one value for one or more of the criteria, which in turn can be used to identify one or more relevant metadata artefacts. Identifiers for, or content of, relevant metadata artefacts can be returned in response to the request. Fallback logic can be used to determine at least in part what metadata artefacts are relevant to a request, or how to return or process request results.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: SAP SEInventors: Rick Weigel, Markus Viol, Eugen Resch, Rashmi Nagendra, Aditya Bhatia
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Publication number: 20230014029Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for retrieving metadata files using a local metadata index. A request to access one or more metadata files associated with at least one computing component is received. At least one primary key and at least secondary key identifying the computing component are determined. An identifier of a storage location storing the metadata files is associated with the primary key and the secondary key. A metadata index for the metadata files is generated. The metadata index includes the primary key, the secondary key, and the associated identifier of the storage location. The metadata index is stored in a memory location associated with the computing component. The stored metadata index is accessed and the metadata files are retrieved using the stored metadata index.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Markus Viol, Eugen Resch, Rick Weigel, Rashmi Nagendra, Aditya Bhatia
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Patent number: 10719488Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for creating and utilizing configuration providers for layered repository facilities. An embodiment operates by creating or loading a custom data structure for a software application, retrieving configuration information from at least one configuration provider, storing the retrieved configuration information in the custom data structure, and associating the custom data structure with the application and a specific layer of a layered repository facility.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Markus Viol, Lars Erbe, Stefan Haffner, Alexander Rauh, Carsten Brandt, Felix Riegger, Christian Voshage, Axel Warner
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Patent number: 10506043Abstract: A client database manager can cause a memory of a client device on a client side of a network to store a first component, a second component, and a relationship value representing a dependent relationship between the first component and the second component. A client processing module can cause a processor to receive, after the storing, a request to process the first component at the client device. The client database manager can send to the server side of the network a request for an update of at least one of the first component or the second component. The client processing module can cause the processor to process at the client device, before receiving a response to the request for the update from the server side of the network, at least a portion of the first component and at least a portion of the second component based on the relationship value.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Hilmar Demant, Sebastian Droll, Joachim Fitzer, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Jan Heiler, Juergen Sattler, Frank Schertel, Markus Viol, Thorsten Weber
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Patent number: 10380191Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for managing and accessing variants of applications. In an embodiment, a request for an application including one or more contextual parameters may be received. A base user interface configuration corresponding to the application may first be retrieved. One or more interface configuration files corresponding to the one or more contextual parameters may then be retrieved from a layered repository. The layered repository may be partitioned into organizational layers that store a plurality of interface configuration files associated with the application. The retrieved interface configuration files may be merged with the base user interface configuration to generate a composite interface configuration, and the composite interface configuration may be applied to the application at runtime.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Markus Viol, Alexander Rauh, Carsten Brandt, Lars Erbe, Stefan Haffner, Felix Riegger, Axel Warner, Christian Voshage
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Publication number: 20180239787Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for creating and utilizing configuration providers for layered repository facilities. An embodiment operates by creating or loading a custom data structure for a software application, retrieving configuration information from at least one configuration provider, storing the retrieved configuration information in the custom data structure, and associating the custom data structure with the application and a specific layer of a layered repository facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: MARKUS VIOL, LARS ERBE, STEFAN HAFFNER, ALEXANDER RAUH, CARSTEN BRANDT, FELIX RIEGGER, CHRISTIAN VOSHAGE, AXEL WARNER
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Publication number: 20180210869Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for managing and accessing variants of applications. In an embodiment, a request for an application including one or more contextual parameters may be received. A base user interface configuration corresponding to the application may first be retrieved. One or more interface configuration files corresponding to the one or more contextual parameters may then be retrieved from a layered repository. The layered repository may be partitioned into organizational layers that store a plurality of interface configuration files associated with the application. The retrieved interface configuration files may be merged with the base user interface configuration to generate a composite interface configuration, and the composite interface configuration may be applied to the application at runtime.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Markus VIOL, Alexander Rauh, Carsten Brandt, Lars Erbe, Stefan Haffner, Felix Riegger, Axel Warner, Christian Voshage
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Publication number: 20170185394Abstract: A system facilitates modification or adaptation of a software object or platform, developed by a software developer, by a plurality of entities, each entity is assigned a hierarchical level, the lowest hierarchical level being assigned to a software developer and the highest hierarchical level being assigned to an end-user. At each level, when a modification or adaptation is implemented, a separate layer file or layer of a layer file is created and stored in a database. Subsequently, the changes of the respective layers are implemented in sequence according to the hierarchy, so that a higher hierarchical level's modifications that are in conflict with a setting of a lower hierarchical level replace the implementation of the lower hierarchical level's setting during runtime.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Lars Erbe, Stefan Haffner, Markus Viol, Alexander Rauh, Carsten Brandt, Felix Riegger, Christian Voshage, Axel Wamer
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Publication number: 20170054808Abstract: A client database manager can cause a memory of a client device on a client side of a network to store a first component, a second component, and a relationship value representing a dependent relationship between the first component and the second component. A client processing module can cause a processor to receive, after the storing, a request to process the first component at the client device. The client database manager can send to the server side of the network a request for an update of at least one of the first component or the second component. The client processing module can cause the processor to process at the client device, before receiving a response to the request for the update from the server side of the network, at least a portion of the first component and at least a portion of the second component based on the relationship value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Inventors: Hilmar Demant, Sebastian Droll, Joachim Fitzer, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Jan Heiler, Juergen Sattler, Frank Schertel, Markus Viol, Thorsten Weber
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Patent number: 9491238Abstract: A client database manager can cause a memory of a client device on a client side of a network to store a first component, a second component, and a relationship value representing a dependent relationship between the first component and the second component. A client processing module can cause a processor to receive, after the storing, a request to process the first component at the client device. The client database manager can send to the server side of the network a request for an update of at least one of the first component or the second component. The client processing module can cause the processor to process at the client device, before receiving a response to the request for the update from the server side of the network, at least a portion of the first component and at least a portion of the second component based on the relationship value.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Hilmar Demant, Sebastian Droll, Joachim Fitzer, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Jan Heiler, Juergen Sattler, Frank Schertel, Markus Viol, Thorsten Weber
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Patent number: 9244697Abstract: According to some embodiments, a business service provider may define a stable user interface anchor entity associated with a business object data structure. A reference field may be associated with the stable user interface anchor, the reference field representing a path to a persistent node of the business object data structure. An end user adaptation to a user interface may then be applied in connection with the business object data structure, the adaptation referencing the stable user interface anchor entity.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Uwe Schlarb, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Gregor Karl Frey, Matthias Lehr, Markus Viol, Stefan A. Baeuerle, Bernhard Thimmel, Karsten Fanghanel
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Patent number: 9170780Abstract: A system includes execution of a software application based on metadata defining a first plurality of software components, reception of second metadata defining the first plurality of software components, determination, based on the second metadata, of a second plurality of the first plurality of software components for which the second metadata is different from the first metadata, and for which the second metadata is associated with elements of the software application, and generation of the elements of the software application based on the second metadata of the second plurality of software components.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Thomas Gieselmann, Markus Viol, Carsten Brandt, Lars Erbe, Stefan Haffner, Alexander Rauh, Franz Müller
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Patent number: 8930441Abstract: A computer system includes a UI designer client that runs on a client device and is configured to enable creation of UI models. A client engine runs on a client device and is configured to initiate requests for the UI models, receive the UI models in response to the requests and interpret and render the UI models at runtime. A UI runtime server client is located on a server and is configured to interface with the client engine to receive and process the requests for the UI models from the client engine. A repository is located on the server and is configured to interface with the UI designer client and store the UI models as created using the UI designer client and interface with the UI runtime server client to deliver requested UI models to the UI runtime server client for interpretation and rendering by the client engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Hilmar Demant, Frank Schertel, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Jan Heiler, Sebastian Droll, Thorsten Weber, Markus Viol, Alexander Rauh, Joachim Fitzer, Juergen Sattler
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Patent number: 8881056Abstract: Methods and apparatus for displaying objects in client GUI. A lead selection and scoping information is used to determine whether the object is viewable, and the object is rendered only if it is at least partially viewable. The lead selection and scoping information is used to determine whether data is needed to render the object, and data is received from a corresponding object on a server only if it is needed to render the object. Determining whether the object is viewable in the GUI can be based on declaratively marked entities within the object's view and on view calculation rules. Determining whether data is needed to render the object can be based on declaratively marked entities within the object's data model such as flags indicating whether the data field is valid or whether the binding of the data field to a data source is valid.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Hilmar Demant, Sebastian Droll, Joachim Fitzer, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Jan Heiler, Juergen Sattler, Frank Schertel, Markus Viol, Thorsten Weber
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Patent number: 8726229Abstract: A plurality of domain-specific service adaptation languages can be supported by a back-end service adaptation system to provide runtime access to a runtime instance of a data object comprising data stored in a repository. By defining a language-specific data access service and parser for each domain-specific service adaptation language, a single, service adaptation language-independent compiler and interpreter can prepare and execute a runtime load that includes an execution plan for retrieving and converting data from the repository for delivery in a data object according to a query request from a consumer runtime environment. A consumer using the consumer runtime environment can define the service adaptation language to be used and provide a parser and source code to enable access to business object data using the back-end service adaptation system.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2009Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Frank Brunswig, Thomas Fiedler, Oswald Gschnitzer, Martin Hartig, Frank Jentsch, Wolfgang Koch, Markus Viol, Jens Weiler, Gerhard Wenzel
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Patent number: 8694544Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for a layering concept for a repository of a user interface framework for Web applications are described herein. The content of a repository provided by different parties (e.g., vendor, partner, customer, user, etc.) is separated. The separation is achieved by assigning solutions to the parties that store content in the repository. Simplified access to the repository is achieved by layering the solutions in a stack and implementing a layer strategy for the layers and their order of access.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Hilmar Demant, Sebastian Droll, Joachim Fitzer, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Jan Heiler, Juergen Sattler, Frank Schertel, Markus Viol, Thorsten Weber
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Patent number: 8589883Abstract: A host software application implementing business processes and providing a graphical display associated with a user interface (UI) for a user in a client program executing on a client frontend device that is separate from a backend device storing metadata associated with the UI may be initiated. An automation graphical symbol may provide the user with an option to initiate a test on events of the host software application, during execution of the host software application. A request from the user may be received, to initiate a test on events of the host software application. Information may be received from the user indicating one or more selected specific events for performing the test. The test may be initiated on the selected specific events, based on a state of execution of the host software application at an initial time of the user indicating the selected specific events for performing the test.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Hilmar Demant, Sebastian Droll, Joachim Fitzer, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Jan Heiler, Rolf Krane, Juergen Sattler, Frank Schertel, Markus Viol, Thorsten Weber