Consistent interface for email activity business object

• US 9,191,357 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Stollarski, Adam, Herold, Uwe, Konstandin, Thomas, Stegmann, Volkmar, Vummiti, Balaji, Yu, Tao, Schulte, Olaf
• Primary Examiner(s): BADAWI, ANGIE M
• Application Number:
  US13/832,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20140282081A1
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• Field of Search: 715/752
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages

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 an email activity business object.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information about email activity, 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 maintaining information for one or more email activities, the maintaining using email activity data obtained from imported structured data, 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 having a hierarchical organization including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, an email activity bundle maintain request sync message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, an email activity package including, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, an email activity entity, wherein each email activity entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one of the following;

an object node sender technical identifier (ID), a change state ID, an ID, a universally unique identifier (UUID), a migrated data adaptation type code, a name, a priority code, an initiator code, an information sensitivity code, a group code, a data origin type code, a transmitted date time, a completion date time, a life cycle status code, a correspondence transmission status code, an activity follow up service request blocking reason code, an initiating activity UUID, a predecessor activity UUID, an activity sentiment type code, and a groupware item ID, and wherein a party package includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one reference party 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 where the unpacking uses a corresponding interface to obtain relevant data from an interface object and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from the common business object model, wherein the hierarchical organization of the first message package is used at least in part to identify 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 party package further includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one of the following:

at least one copy message to party entity, at least one blind copy message to party entity, an employee responsible party entity, a main activity party entity, an activity unit party entity, at least one business transaction document reference entity, at least one text entity, and an attachment folder entity.

3. 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 media, for maintaining information for one or more email activities, the maintaining using email activity data obtained from imported structured data, 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 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, an email activity bundle maintain request sync message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, an email activity package including, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, an email activity entity, wherein each email activity entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one of the following;

an object node sender technical identifier (ID), a change state ID, an ID, a universally unique identifier (UUID), a migrated data adaptation type code, a name, a priority code, an initiator code, an information sensitivity code, a group code, a data origin type code, a transmitted date time, a completion date time, a life cycle status code, a correspondence transmission status code, an activity follow up service request blocking reason code, an initiating activity UUID, a predecessor activity UUID, an activity sentiment type code, and a groupware item ID, and wherein the party package includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, at least one reference party entity;

a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of message-based 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, 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 where the unpacking uses a corresponding interface to obtain relevant data from an interface object and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from the common business object model, wherein the hierarchical organization of the first message package is used at least in part to identify the message.

4. The distributed system of claim 3, wherein the first memory is remote from the graphical user interface.

5. The distributed system of claim 3, wherein the first memory is remote from the second memory.