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Managing consistent interfaces for merchandising business objects across heterogeneous systems

  • US 8,554,637 B2
  • Filed: 01/30/2013
  • Issued: 10/08/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information for business activity that is performed in a retail store, including retail transactions, financial movements and goods movements, the medium comprising:

  • program code for receiving via a message-based interface derived from a common business object model, where the common business object model includes business objects having relationships that enable derivation of message-based interfaces and message packages, the 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 providing a notification of one or more point of sale transactions that includes a first message package derived from the common business object model and hierarchically organized as;

    a point of sale transaction enterprise resource planning (ERP) bulk create request message entity; and

    a point of sale transaction ERP create request message package comprising a point of sale transaction ERP create request message entity and a point of sale transaction package, the point of sale transaction package comprising a point of sale transaction entity, where the point of sale transaction entity includes a store internal identifier (ID), a device ID, an ID, a business date, and an indicator identifying whether a training mode is active; and

    program code for processing the first message according to the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the first message includes unpacking the first message package based on the common business object model; and

    program code for sending a second message to the heterogeneous application responsive to the first message, where the second message includes a second message package derived from the common business object model to provide consistent semantics with the first message package.

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