Enterprise application platform

• US 7,426,548 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2007
• Issued: 09/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Posner, Brad, Sengupta, Somenath, Griffin, Philip B., Devgan, Manish, Gupta, Jitendra, Ma, Hung T., Rohra, Ravi, Libouban, Olivier, Osborne, Patrick, Hallock, Troy, Lin, Chengjiang C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang; Jungwon
• Application Number:
  US11/749,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20070214271A1
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• Field of Search: 709/246, 709/217, 709/203, 709/311, 709/329, 709/200, 709/219, 709/225, 715/742, 705/37, 705/22, 705/2, 705/4, 705/80, 717/137
• US Class Current: 709/219
• 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: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

A business platform can provide access to applications and provide for the integration of resources with other applications, including internal and external applications, services and systems. A portal framework included within the platform can render portals including graphical user interfaces for displaying and receiving content that can be used by various applications. A portal framework can provide an interface to various resources such that information received and displayed by the portal framework can be exchanged with internal and external resources using standards-based transport protocols, messaging systems, and document types. An integration framework can be invoked to exchange this information among applications and services. An integration framework can provide access to resources by integrating the resources with an application server. The portal framework and integration framework can be implemented on an application server which can support enterprise applications. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.

Claims

1. A method for performing an electronic business transaction, comprising:

receiving a request for the availability of a product through a portal, the portal generated using a portal framework;

converting the request to an XML-based document;

passing the XML-based document to an integration framework;

placing the XML-based document into a request message configured for communication using a predetermined protocol;

passing the request message using the predetermined protocol to at least one supplier system;

receiving a response message from the at least one supplier system containing an XML-based response document;

extracting the XML-based response document from the response message;

passing the XML-based response document to the portal framework; and

updating the portal with information from the XML-based response document.

2. A computer-readable storage medium including code to:

receive a request for the availability of a product through a portal, the portal generated using a portal framework;

convert the request to an XML-based document;

pass the XML-based document to an integration framework;

place the XML-based document into a request message configured for communication using a predetermined protocol;

pass the request message using the predetermined protocol to at least one supplier system;

receive a response message from the at least one supplier system containing an XML-based response document;

extract the XML-based response document from the response message;

pass the XML-based response document to the portal framework; and

update the portal with information from the XML-based response document.