Parameter Value Binding for Mobile Business Objects

• US 20120023064A1
• Filed: 07/20/2010
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sybase Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sybase Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: IRELAND, Evan
• Granted Patent: US 8,843,438 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/610
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for facilitating interaction between front-end mobile business objects and back-end enterprise information system data. The approaches described reduce the need for client-visible parameters needed by the enterprise information system, but that can be handled without being directly supplied by a developed of a client application on a mobile device interacting with the enterprise information system via a synchronization server.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining a specification for an enterprise information system operation comprising one or more parameters;

identifying a mobile business object related to the enterprise information system operation; and

defining a binding for the one or more parameters.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to a constant value.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

utilizing the constant value as a default for the one of the one or more parameters if an additional binding to the one of the one or more parameters comprises null data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to an expression.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to a personalization parameter.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to a foreign attribute of an additional mobile business object.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to a value path, the value path comprising an attribute of the mobile business object.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a call to an operation of the mobile business object, the operation of the mobile business object corresponding to the enterprise information system operation;

preparing the one or more parameters for the enterprise information system operation, the one or more parameters determined based on the binding; and

sending the one or more parameters to the enterprise information system.

9. An article of manufacture including a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions, execution of which, by one or more computing devices, causes the computing devices to perform operations comprising:

obtaining a specification for an enterprise information system operation comprising one or more parameters;

identifying a mobile business object related to the enterprise information system operation; and

defining a binding for the one or more parameters.

10. The article of manufacture of claim 9, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to a constant value.

11. The article of manufacture of claim 10, the operations further comprising:

utilizing the constant value as a default for the one of the one or more parameters if an additional binding to the one of the one or more parameters comprises null data.

12. The article of manufacture of claim 9, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to an expression.

13. The article of manufacture of claim 9, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to a personalization parameter.

14. The article of manufacture of claim 9, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to a foreign attribute of an additional mobile business object.

15. The article of manufacture of claim 9, wherein defining the binding comprises:

defining a binding for one of the one or more parameters to a value path, the value path comprising an attribute of the mobile business object.

16. The article of manufacture of claim 9, the operations further comprising:

receiving a call to an operation of the mobile business object, the operation of the mobile business object corresponding to the enterprise information system operation;

preparing the one or more parameters for the enterprise information system operation, the one or more parameters determined based on the binding; and

sending the one or more parameters to the enterprise information system.

17. A system comprising:

a memory configured to store modules comprising;

an obtaining module configured to obtain a specification for an enterprise information system operation comprising one or more parameters,

an identifying module configured to identify a mobile business object related to the enterprise information system operation, and

a defining module configured to define a binding for the one or more parameters; and

one or more processors configured to process the modules.