BUSINESS SOFTWARE APPLICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20090271762A1
• Filed: 04/29/2009
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sugarcrm Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sugarcrm Incorporated
• Inventors: Mertic, John, Heitzenroder, Matt, Swicegood, Travis, Smith, Roger, Wu, Andrew, Taylor, Jacob, Itani, Majed, Parsons, Joseph, Tretikov, Lila Alexei
• Application Number:
  US12/432,086
• Publication Number:
  US 20090271762A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A business software application system and method are provided.

Claims

1. A business software application system, comprising:

a computing device with a processing unit;

a business software application having a plurality of lines of computer code wherein the plurality of lines of computer code are executed by the processing unit of the computing device to generate a user interface of the business software application; and

the business software application further comprising a tracker unit that is capable of tracking one of records and user actions.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a database containing a plurality of pieces of information, one or more modules that access the database to pull pieces of information from the database based on a request from the computing device and display a user interface to the user containing the requested information;

one or more controllers that control access by the computing device to the one or more modules and the database and wherein the one or more modules further comprises a tracker module.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the tracker unit maps actions and navigation history of a user of the business software application.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the tracker unit performs auditing of records stored in the database.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the tracker unit generates a tracker log.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the tracker unit performs resource management of the business software application.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the tracker unit generates an alert when a threshold limit of a resource of the business software application is reached.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the resource further comprises one or more of the processing unit, a memory unit of the computing device, a database connection to the database and a socket.

9. A business software application system, comprising:

a computing device with a processing unit;

a business software application having a plurality of lines of computer code wherein the plurality of lines of computer code are executed by the processing unit of the computing device to generate a user interface of the business software application; and

the business software application further comprising a security unit that is capable of providing security to an external form of the business software application.

10. The system of claim 9 further comprising a database containing a plurality of pieces of information, one or more modules that access the database to pull pieces of information from the database based on a request from the computing device and display a user interface to the user containing the requested information;

one or more controllers that control access by the computing device to the one or more modules and the database and wherein the one or more modules further comprises a security module that provides security to an external form of the business software application.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the security unit generates a unique password for each external form.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the security unit generates a time based rotating key for each external form.

13. A business software application system, comprising:

a computing device with a processing unit;

a business software application having a plurality of lines of computer code wherein the plurality of lines of computer code are executed by the processing unit of the computing device to generate a user interface of the business software application;

a database containing a plurality of pieces of information;

one or more modules that access the database to pull pieces of information from the database based on a request from the computing device and display a user interface to the user containing the requested information; and

the one or more modules further comprising a module builder that allow users to build a new layout, field, feature, page or sub-application of the business software application.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the module builder further comprises a relationship editor that allows a user to one of view, create, modify and delete an entity relationship in the business software application.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more modules further comprises an import module to import data into the business software application.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the import module generates one or more waves wherein each wave processes a portion of the imported data.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more modules further comprises a reports module having a reports wizard to read or write a report and a reports runner unit to read or run a report.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more modules further comprises a charts module that generates charts associated with the business software application.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more modules further comprises a wireless engine having a rendering layer to generate a user interface of the business software application for different wireless devices.