Patents by Inventor Ralf Kau

Ralf Kau 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).

  • Automated process flow in product development
    Patent number: 7757203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method, computer program, computer program product, data structure, and computer for providing automated process flow in product development. A structured data object may be defined comprising at least one recipe and at least one defined formula. Trial stages within said product development are also defined as are object types within said data object referring to said trial stages. An instance of said data object is instantiated from said data object definition. A type of said instance is specified from one of said object types. A user may then be provided said recipe and/or said formula according to the specified type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Juergen Scholl, Stephan Toebben, Helga Walter, Ralf Kau
  • Automated process flow in product development
    Publication number: 20050138060
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method, computer program, computer program product, data structure, and computer for providing automated process flow in product development. A structured data object may be defined comprising at least one recipe and at least one defined formula. Trial stages within said product development are also defined as are object types within said data object referring to said trial stages. An instance of said data object is instantiated from said data object definition. A type of said instance is specified from one of said object types. A user may then be provided said recipe and/or said formula according to the specified type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Juergen Scholl, Stephan Toebben, Helga Walter, Ralf Kau