HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL FILTERING OF MULTI-DOMAIN BUSINESS APPLICATION MODELS

• US 20080244517A1
• Filed: 03/26/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Rostoker, Nir
• Application Number:
  US11/691,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20080244517A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/120
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting

Abstract

This disclosure relates to methods, systems, and software for horizontal and vertical filtering of business application models. Such software may identify a first modeling domain and a second modeling domain for a business application. The software can then apply a filter to at least the first modeling domain to determine a subset of the first and second modeling domains and present the subset of one of the modeling domains to a client. In some situations, each modeling domain may be a UI domain, a business process domain, or a data domain. Further, the first modeling domain can represent the particular domain in a first logical layer and the second modeling domain can represent the same domain in a second logical layer. Moreover, the software can apply any suitable number of filters, whether vertical and/or horizontal, to any number of appropriate domains and layers.

Claims

1. Software for horizontal and vertical filtering of business application models, the software comprising computer-readable instructions operable when executed to:

identify a first modeling domain and a second modeling domain for a business application;

apply a filter to at least the first modeling domain to determine a subset of the first and second modeling domains; and

present the subset of one of the modeling domains to a client.

2. The software of claim 1, the first modeling domain comprising one of a user interface (UI) domain, a business process domain, or a data domain.

3. The software of claim 2, the first modeling domain representing the particular domain in a first logical layer and the second modeling domain representing the particular domain in a second logical layer.

4. The software of claim 2, the first modeling domain representing the particular domain in a first logical layer and the second modeling domain representing one of remaining domains in the first logical layer.

5. The software of claim 1, the first modeling domain representing a particular domain in a first logical layer and the second modeling domain representing the particular domain in a second logical layer.

6. The software of claim 5, each domain in the first layer tightly bound to the respective domain in the second layer.

7. The software of claim 5 further operable to dynamically bind the presented subset of the modeling domain to the respective subset of the other modeling domain in the other logical layer.

8. The software of claim 5 further operable to:

identify a third modeling domain for a business application;

apply the filter to at least the first modeling domain to determine a third modeling domain; and

present the subset of the third modeling domain to the client

9. The software of claim 8, the third modeling domain comprising the particular domain in a third logical layer.

10. The software of claim 8, the third modeling domain comprising another domain in the first logical layer.

11. The software of claim 1, the first modeling domain representing a first domain in a first logical layer and the second modeling domain representing a second domain in the first logical layer.

12. The software of claim 1 further operable to concurrently present the subset of the other modeling domain to the client.

13. The software of claim 1, the filter comprising criteria selected from at least one of the following:

user technical level, user role, business logic portion, third party element flag, business department, and decision point flag.

14. The software of claim 1, the filter comprising a client-supplied filter.

15. The software of claim 1 further operable to:

apply a second filter to at least the first modeling domain to determine a second subset of the first and second modeling domains; and

present the second subset of one of the modeling domains to a client.

16. The software of claim 15 further operable to aggregate the subsets into one presentation.

17. The software of claim 15 further operable to determine the union of the two subsets and present only the union to the client.

18. A system for horizontal and vertical filtering of business application models comprising:

memory storing a plurality of modeling domains for a particular business application; and

one or more processors operable to;

identify a first of the modeling domains and a second of the modeling domains for the business application;

apply a filter to at least the first modeling domain to determine a subset of the first and second modeling domains; and

present the subset of one of the modeling domains to a client.

19. The system of claim 18, the first modeling domain comprising one of a user interface (UI) domain, a business process domain, or a data domain.

20. The system of claim 18, the first modeling domain representing a particular domain in a first logical layer and the second modeling domain representing the particular domain in a second logical layer.

21. The system of claim 20, each domain in the first layer tightly bound to the respective domain in the second layer.

22. The system of claim 20, the one or more processors further operable to:

identify a third modeling domain for a business application;

apply the filter to at least the first modeling domain to determine a third modeling domain; and

present the subset of the third modeling domain to the client

23. The system of claim 22, the third modeling domain comprising another domain in the first logical layer.

24. The system of claim 22 further operable to dynamically bind the presented subset of the modeling domain to the respective subset of the other modeling domain in the other logical layer.

25. The system of claim 18, the first modeling domain representing a first domain in a first logical layer and the second modeling domain representing a second domain in the first logical layer.

26. The system of claim 18, the one or more processors further operable to concurrently present the subset of the other modeling domain to the client.

27. The system of claim 18, the filter comprising criteria selected from at least one of the following:

user technical level, user role, business logic portion, third party element flag, business department, and decision point flag.