Consistent interface for financial instrument impairment expected cash flow analytical result

• US 9,076,112 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2012
• Issued: 07/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Kahn, Markus, Froese, Silke, Haaf, Hermann, Schwan, Matthias, Fenn, Markus, Harmsen, Silvia, Mayer, Dorothea
• Primary Examiner(s): Danneman, Paul
• Application Number:
  US13/591,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20140058907A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,049 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• 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 financial instrument impairment expected cash flow analytical result business object.

Claims

1. A tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information about financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical results, 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 querying to find one or more analytical results of an expected cash flow determination that meet specified selection criteria, including information for an expected amount and timing of payments of collaterals, and expected proceeds, the first message including a first message package hierarchically organized based on and derived from the common business object, the hierarchical organization of the message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result financial systems by elements query message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a selection package and a processing conditions package, wherein the selection package includes, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result selection by elements entity, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result selection by elements entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a set of books identifier (ID), and wherein the processing conditions package includes, at the second hierarchical level in the first message package, a processing conditions entity;

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 on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package, and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from the common business object model, wherein the particular hierarchical organization of the first message package and the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package are 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 computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result selection by elements entity further includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one of the following:

a financial instruments analytical scenario ID, a company ID, an organisational centre ID, a key date, a financial instrument category code, an exposure category code, and a risk type code.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result selection by elements entity further includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one of the following:

a system administrative data creation date time search period entity from the selection package, a selection by financial instrument ID entity from the selection package, and a selection by property entity from the selection package.

4. A distributed system operating in a landscape 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 tangible media, for querying to find one or more analytical results of an expected cash flow determination that meet specified selection criteria, including information for an expected amount and timing of payments of collaterals, and expected proceeds, the instructions 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 first message including a first 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 first message package hierarchically organized based on and derived from the common business object model, the hierarchical organization of the message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result financial systems by elements query message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a selection package and a processing conditions package, wherein the selection package includes, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result selection by elements entity, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result selection by elements entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a set of books identifier (ID), and wherein the processing conditions package includes, at the second hierarchical level in the first message package, a processing conditions entity;

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, the service interfaces operable when executed to provide consistent semantics with messages derived from the common business object model based on the common derivation from the common business object model, wherein one of the message-based service interfaces is operable to process the message based on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the message includes unpacking the first message package based on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package, and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from the common business object model, wherein the particular structure of the first message package and the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package are 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.

7. A tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information about financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical results, 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 an individual analytical result of an expected cash flow determination, including information for an expected amount and timing of payments of collaterals, and expected proceeds, the first message including a first message package hierarchically organized in memory based on and derived from the common business object model, the first message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result financial services create request message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result package, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result package includes, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result entity, a business process chain assignment package, and a cash flow item package, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a group identifier (ID), a financial instrument ID, a company ID, a set of books ID, a key date, a financial instrument category code, an exposure category code, a risk type code, a creation date time, a confirmation requested indicator, and a financial instrument write down amount, wherein the business process chain assignment package includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, a business process chain assignment entity, and, wherein the cash flow item package includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one cash flow item entity, and wherein each cash flow item entity includes, at a fourth hierarchical level in the first message package, a date, a collateral based indicator, and an amount;

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 on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package, and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from the common business object model, wherein the particular hierarchical organization of the first message package and the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package are 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.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result entity further includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one of the following:

a financial instruments analytical scenario ID, and an organisational centre ID.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result package further includes, at the second hierarchical level in the first message package, a property package, and wherein the property package includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one property entity.

10. A distributed system operating in a landscape 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 tangible media, for requesting creation of an individual analytical result of an expected cash flow determination, including information for an expected amount and timing of payments of collaterals, and expected proceeds, the instructions 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 first message including a first 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 first message package hierarchically organized based on and derived from the common business object model, the hierarchical organization of the message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result financial services create request message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result package, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result package includes, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result entity, a business process chain assignment package, and a cash flow item package, wherein the financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical result entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a group identifier (ID), a financial instrument ID, a company ID, a set of books ID, a key date, a financial instrument category code, an exposure category code, a risk type code, a creation date time, a confirmation requested indicator, and a financial instrument write down amount, wherein the business process chain assignment package includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, a business process chain assignment entity, and, wherein the cash flow item package includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one cash flow item entity, and wherein each cash flow item entity includes, at a fourth hierarchical level in the first message package, a date, a collateral based indicator, and an amount; and

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, the service interfaces operable when executed to provide consistent semantics with messages derived from the common business object model based on common derivation from the common business object model, wherein one of the message-based service interfaces is operable to process the message based on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the message includes unpacking the first message package based on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package, and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from the common business object model, wherein the particular structure of the first message package and the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package are used at least in part to identify the purpose of the message.

11. The distributed system of claim 10, wherein the first memory is remote from the graphical user interface.

12. The distributed system of claim 10, wherein the first memory is remote from the second memory.