Activity browser

• US 20060015387A1
• Filed: 07/19/2005
• Published: 01/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Moore, Dennis B., Beringer, Joerg
• Granted Patent: US 7,756,820 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for an activity browser. A computer system includes a user interface linked to a processor arranged to perform instructions in accordance with a business application stored in a memory, the business application including context code portions representing at least one context, the context representing a business situation, service interface code portions defining at least two interfaces between services and the context, each of the interfaces arranged for exchanging data from a parameter of the context and the service associated with the context, and user-interface code portions for outputting at the user interface data representing information about the context.

Claims

1. A computer system, including a user-interface linked to a processor arranged to perform instructions in accordance with a business application stored in a memory, the business application comprising:

context code portions representing at least one context, the context representing a business situation;

service interface code portions defining at least two interfaces between services and the context, each of the interfaces arranged for exchanging data from a parameter of the context and the service associated with the context; and

user-interface code portions for outputting at the user interface data representing information about the context.

2. The computer system of claim 1 wherein the business application further comprises data selecting code portions for selecting from the context data depending on a selection criterion and outputting at the user interface the selected data.

3. The computer system of claim 2 wherein the business application further comprises context selecting code portions for selecting at least one selected context depending on a selection criterion, and the user-interface code portions are arranged from outputting at the user interface data from the at least one selected context.

4. The computer system of claim 2 wherein the data selecting code portions and/or context selecting code portions are arranged to select the context data and/or context depending on a user.

5. The computer system of claim 4 wherein the data selecting code portions and/or context selecting code portions are arranged to select the context data and/or context depending on a role of the user within an enterprise.

6. The computer system of claim 5 further comprising control code portions for allowing the user to select a context, and code portions for outputting data from the user selected context at the user interface.

7. The computer system of claim 1 wherein the data from the context comprises information about activities to be performed in the business situation represented by the context.

8. The computer system of claim 1 wherein the data from the selected context comprises status information about a state of an aspect of the business situation represented by the context.

9. The computer system of claim 1 further comprising context modifying code portions for providing at the user interface at least one control to modify a parameter of the selected context.

10. The computer system of claim 1 further comprising service code portions for invoking at least one of the services associated with the selected context.

11. A computer-implemented method for running a business application comprising:

providing a memory in which at least one context is stored, context representing a business situation;

enabling an interface between the context and a service associated with the context, the interface providing exchange of data between a parameter of the context and a service associated with the context; and

outputting data from the context at a user interface.