Managing consistent interfaces for a point of sale transaction business object across heterogeneous systems

• US 8,560,392 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2011
• Issued: 10/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Bardroff, Patrick Josef, Barheine, Wolfgang, Clemens, Achim, Gueler, Sedat, Plewa, Ulf, Ringl, Benjamin, Scheiber, Christoph, Thiele, Christopher, Trapp, Roland, Zhang, Guimei, Asal, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): SHEIKH, ASFAND M
• Application Number:
  US13/192,574
• Publication Number:
  US 20130030930A1
• Time in Patent Office: 810 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/17
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/00 Payment architectures, schemes or protocols apparatus for performing or posting payment transactions G07F7/08, G07F19/00; electronic cash registers G07G1/12

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 point of sale transaction business object.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information for point of sale transactions, 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 about a bundle of created or updated point of sale transactions that includes a first message package derived from the common business object model and the first message hierarchically organized in memory as;

a point of sale transaction bundle notification message entity; and

a point of sale transaction bundle notification package comprising at least one point of sale transaction bundle notification entity, where each point of sale transaction bundle notification entity includes an external identifier (ID), a type code, a business transaction date, and a company ID;

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 associated with the first message package.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the point of sale transaction bundle notification package further comprises at least one of the following:

a retail transaction package and a summary transaction package.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein each point of sale transaction bundle notification entity further includes at least one of the following:

a note, an end date time, and an operator business partner internal ID.

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 providing a notification about a bundle of created or updated point of sale transactions using a request;

a first memory storing a user interface controller for processing the request and involving a message including a message package derived from a common business object model, where the common business object model includes business objects having relationships that enable derivation of message-based service interfaces and message packages, the message package hierarchically organized as;

a point of sale transaction bundle notification message entity; and

a point of sale transaction bundle notification package comprising at least one point of sale transaction bundle notification entity, where each point of sale transaction bundle notification entity includes an external identifier (ID), a type code, a business transaction date, and a company ID; 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, where processing the message includes unpacking the message package based on the common business object model.

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.