MANAGING CONSISTENT INTERFACES FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND OBJECT IDENTIFIER MAPPING BUSINESS OBJECTS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS

• US 20130031203A1
• Filed: 07/28/2011
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Vogt, Thomas, Wolf, Markus, Gaffga, Joachim, Bestfleisch, Ulrich, Albers, Leif, Brink, Jan, Mueller, Mario Andy, Bechtold, Johannes, Boche, Herbert, Tanzer, Paul, Rekowski, Andre von
• Granted Patent: US 8,521,838 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a communication system and/or an object identifier mapping business object.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging specifications of communication systems that includes services, communication methods and technical settings needed for communication, the medium comprising:

program code for receiving via a message-based interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry and from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, a first message for querying a specification of a communication system that includes services, communication methods, and technical settings needed for communication that includes a message package hierarchically organized as;

a communication system query message entity; and

a communication system package comprising a communication system entity, where the communication system entity includes a universally unique identifier (UUID) an identifier (ID), a system access type code, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) proxy name, system administrative data, and a status; and

program code for sending a second message to the heterogeneous application responsive to the first message.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the communication system package comprises at least one of the following:

a participating business system package and a communication partner package.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the communication system entity further includes at least one of the following:

a system indicator, a host name, an Internet protocol (IP) address, an HTTP proxy transmission control protocol (TCP) port ID, an HTTP proxy user name, HTTP proxy password text, and an owner organization name.

4. A distributed system operating in a landscape of computer systems providing message-based services defined in a service registry, the system comprising:

a graphical user interface comprising computer readable instructions, embedded on tangible media, for querying a specification of a communication system that includes services, communication methods, and technical settings needed for communication using a request;

a first memory storing a user interface controller for processing the request and involving a message including a message package hierarchically organized as;

a communication system query message entity; and

a communication system package comprising a communication system entity, where the communication system entity includes a universally unique identifier (UUID) an identifier (ID), a system access type code, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) proxy name, system administrative data, and a status; and

a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of service interfaces, where one of the service interfaces is operable to process the message via the service interface.

5. The distributed system of claim 4, wherein the first memory is remote from the graphical user interface.

6. The distributed system of claim 4, wherein the first memory is remote from the second memory.

7. A computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging object identifier mappings that map a local object identifier to an identifier of a corresponding object in a remote system, the medium comprising:

program code for receiving via a message-based interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry and from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, a first message for querying object identifier mapping information that includes a message package hierarchically organized as;

an object identifier mapping query message entity; and

an object identifier mapping package comprising at least one object identifier mapping entity, where each object identifier mapping entity includes a universally unique identifier (UUID), a local object node reference, a remote business system UUID, a remote identifier defining scheme code, a remote object ID, an origin type code, and system administrative data; and

program code for sending a second message to the heterogeneous application responsive to the first message.

8. A distributed system operating in a landscape of computer systems providing message-based services defined in a service registry, the system comprising:

a graphical user interface comprising computer readable instructions, embedded on tangible media, for querying object identifier mapping information using a request;

a first memory storing a user interface controller for processing the request and involving a message including a message package hierarchically organized as;

an object identifier mapping query message entity; and

an object identifier mapping package comprising at least one object identifier mapping entity, where each object identifier mapping entity includes a universally unique identifier (UUID), a local object node reference, a remote business system UUID, a remote identifier defining scheme code, a remote object ID, an origin type code, and system administrative data; and

a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of service interfaces, where one of the service interfaces is operable to process the message via the service interface.

9. The distributed system of claim 8, wherein the first memory is remote from the graphical user interface.

10. The distributed system of claim 8, wherein the first memory is remote from the second memory.