ACTIONABLE BUSINESS ENTITY OPERATING MODELS TO DRIVE USER INTERFACE BEHAVIOR

• US 20160070454A1
• Filed: 09/09/2014
• Published: 03/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: DALEY, STAN K., HAMBRICK, GEOFFREY M., HAREN, PIERRE, JENSEN, CLAUS T., KE, NICOLAS CHANGHAI
• Granted Patent: US 10,444,965 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method and system are provided. The method includes providing an actionable business entity operating model. The method further includes extending the actionable business entity operating model to drive user interface behavior on a user interface device having at least a display device, by extending class and property meta classes of the actionable business entity operating model to include user interface behavior semantics. The extending step includes configuring the user interface behavior semantics to be responsive to an operation state of the actionable business entity operating model.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A non-transitory article of manufacture tangibly embodying a computer readable program which when executed causes a computer to perform a method comprising:

providing an actionable business entity operating model; and

extending the actionable business entity operating model to drive user interface behavior on a user interface device having at least a display device, by extending class and property meta classes of the actionable business entity operating model to include user interface behavior semantics,

wherein said extending step comprises configuring the user interface behavior semantics to be responsive to an operation state of the actionable business entity operating model.

15. A system, comprising:

an actionable business entity operating model provider for providing an actionable business entity operating model; and

a processor-based actionable business entity operating model extender for extending the actionable business entity operating model to drive user interface behavior on a user interface device having at least a display device, by extending class and property meta classes of the actionable business entity operating model to include user interface behavior semantics,

wherein said processor-based actionable business entity operating model extender configures the user interface behavior semantics to be responsive to an operation state of actionable business entity operating model.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the user interface behavior semantics comprise actions in the actionable business entity operating model which have a respective corresponding interaction with a user, and wherein the actions in the actionable business entity operating model which have the respective corresponding interaction with the user are variable responsive to a lifecycle state of a business entity instance.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the user interface comprises a form of an interactive parameterized document.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein portions of the interactive parameterized document are expressed as objects in a document ontology.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein parameters of the interactive parameterized document are expressed as objects in a document ontology and related to domain ontology objects that provide values for the parameters.

20. The system of claim 15, where the actionable business entity operating model comprises a plurality of classes, and said processor-based actionable business entity operating model extender extends the actionable business entity operating model to drive the user interface behavior by defining a display sequence for the user interface as a pseudo number a respective one of the plurality of classes has in the display sequence, wherein multiple classes from among the plurality of classes can have a same pseudo number that is resolvable at a runtime, and each of a plurality of class properties defines a relative display sequence within a respective one of the plurality of classes.