Managing consistent interfaces for credit portfolio business objects across heterogeneous systems

• US 8,671,041 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2012
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Haaf, Hermann, Kahn, Markus, Klueglich, Oliver, Vogel, Dirk, Wanninger, Manfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Hai
• Application Number:
  US13/349,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20120117000A1
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• Field of Search: 705 35- 45
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis

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 credit portfolio model, a credit portfolio analytical result, a credit portfolio management process control, a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result, and/or a material supply and demand allocation business object.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for performing a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result service, 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 requesting creation of a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result, where the financial instrument exposure profile analytical result comprises an analytical result of an exposure profile calculation of a financial instrument, the first message including a first message package derived from the common business object model, the first message package hierarchically organized in memory, the hierarchical organization of the first message package including;

at the first hierarchical level within the first message package, a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result create request message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level within the first message package, a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result package, where the financial instrument exposure profile analytical result package includes, at a second hierarchical level within the first message package, a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result entity, where the financial instrument exposure profile analytical result entity includes, at a third hierarchical level within the first message package, an identifier (ID), a group ID, a key date, and a creation date time;

program code for processing the first message based on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the first message includes unpacking the first message package based the first message package'"'"'s structure and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from on the common business object model, wherein the particular structure of the first message package is used at least in part to identify the purpose of the first message; 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.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the financial instrument exposure profile analytical result package further includes, at the second hierarchical level within the first message package, an item package, where the item package includes, at the third hierarchical level within the first message package, at least one item entity and a property package, where each item entity includes, at a fourth hierarchical level within the first message package, a date, and where each property package includes, at the fourth hierarchical level within the first message package, at least one property entity, and where each property entity includes, at a fifth hierarchical level within the first message package, an ID and a value.

3. The medium of claim 1, wherein the financial instrument exposure profile analytical result entity further includes, at the third hierarchical level within the first message package, at least one of a financial instrument ID, a financial instrument category code, a standardized financial instrument account ID, and a maximum original maturity duration.

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

at least one processor operable to execute computer readable instructions embodied on non-transitory media;

a graphical user interface executable by the at least one processor and comprising computer readable instructions, embedded on non-transitory media, for requesting creation of a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result, where the financial instrument exposure profile analytical result comprises an analytical result of an exposure profile calculation of a financial instrument, using a request;

a first memory storing a user interface controller executable by the at least one processor 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, the hierarchical organization of the first message package including;

at a first hierarchical level within the first message package, a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result package, where the financial instrument exposure profile analytical result package includes, at a second hierarchical level within the first message package, a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result entity, where the financial instrument exposure profile analytical result entity includes, at a third hierarchical level within the first message package, an identifier (ID), a group ID, a key date, and a creation date time;

a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of service interfaces executable by the at least one processor and derived from the common business object model to provide consistent semantics with messages derived from the common business object model, where one of the message-based service interfaces processes the message based on the hierarchical organization of the message package, where processing the message includes unpacking the first message package based on the message package'"'"'s structure and the message package'"'"'s derivation from the common business object model, wherein the particular structure of the message package is used at least in part to identify the purpose of the message.

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.