Consistent interface for user feed administrator, user feed event link and user feed settings

• US 9,232,368 B2
• Filed: 02/16/2012
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Vins, Miro, Mendicino, Vincent, Wodtke, Dirk, Sarangi, Chinmaya, Xu, Jian, Ng, Andrew, Srivatsan, Neil, He, Yingjiong, Gnan, Werner, Latocha, Peter, Seubert, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Salad, Abdullahi E
• Application Number:
  US13/398,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20130218980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,419 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

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 user feed administrator, a user feed event link and/or a user feed settings business object.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information about user feed administrator objects that monitor and push feeds to a user, the medium comprising:

program code for receiving a first message 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, the first message received from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, the first message for querying user feed administrators according to specified selection elements, the first message including a first message package derived from the common business object model, the first message package hierarchically organized in memory based on the common business object model, the first message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed administrator query message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed administrator package comprising, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed administrator entity, where the user feed administrator entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a universally unique identifier (UUID), a feed user identity UUID, a polling end point web universal resource identifier (URI), and at least one feed user identity entity;

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 first message package'"'"'s structure and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from 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. 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 to execute computer readable instructions embodied on non-transitory media;

a graphical user interface executed by the at least one processor and comprising computer readable instructions, embedded on non-transitory media, for querying user feed administrators according to specified selection elements using a request;

a first memory storing a user interface controller executed 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 the common business object model, the hierarchical organization of the first message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed administrator query message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed administrator package comprising, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed administrator entity, where the user feed administrator entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a universally unique identifier (UUID), a feed user identity UUID, a polling end point web universal resource identifier (URI), and at least one feed user identity entity; and

a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of service interfaces executed 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 service interfaces processes the message via the service interface according to the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the message includes unpacking the first message package based on the first message package'"'"'s structure and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from 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 message.

3. The distributed system of claim 2, wherein the first memory is remote from the graphical user interface.

4. The distributed system of claim 2, wherein the first memory is remote from the second memory.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information about user-specific links to feed event documents, the medium comprising:

program code for receiving a first message 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, the first message received from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, the first message for querying information about user feed event links, the first message including a first message package derived from the common business object model, the first message package hierarchically organized in memory based on the common business object model, the first message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed event link query message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed event link package comprising, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed event link entity, where the user feed event link entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a universally unique identifier (UUID), an assignee identity UUID, a feed event document UUID, at least one feed event document, and at least one assignee identity;

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 first message package'"'"'s structure and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from 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.

6. 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 to execute computer readable instructions embodied on non-transitory media;

a graphical user interface executed by the at least one processor and comprising computer readable instructions, embedded on non-transitory media, for querying information about user feed event links using a request;

a first memory storing a user interface controller executed 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 the common business object model, the hierarchical organization of the first message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed event link query message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed event link package comprising, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed event link entity, where the user feed event link entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a universally unique identifier (UUID), an assignee identity UUID, a feed event document UUID, at least one feed event document, and at least one assignee identity; and

a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of service interfaces executed 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 service interfaces processes the message via the service interface according to the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the message includes unpacking the first message package based on the first message package'"'"'s structure and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from 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 message.

7. The distributed system of claim 6, wherein the first memory is remote from the graphical user interface.

8. The distributed system of claim 6, wherein the first memory is remote from the second memory.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information about user-specific settings for feed subscriptions, the medium comprising:

program code for receiving via a 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 information about user-specific settings for feed subscriptions that includes a message package hierarchically organized as;

program code for receiving a first message 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, the first message received from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, the first message for querying information about user-specific settings for feed subscriptions, the first message including a first message package derived from the common business object model, the first message package hierarchically organized in memory based on the common business object model, the first message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed settings query message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed settings package comprising, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed settings entity, where the user feed settings entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a universally unique identifier (UUID), system administrative data, a feed user identity UUID, a textual indicator that specifies whether or not requests to follow the feed user are accepted automatically, and at least one feed user identity;

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 first message package'"'"'s structure and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from 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.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the user feed settings entity further includes, at the third hierarchical level in the first message package, email digest update recurrence frequency text.

11. 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 to execute computer readable instructions embodied on non-transitory media;

a graphical user interface executed by the at least one processor and comprising computer readable instructions, embedded on non-transitory media, for querying information about user-specific settings for feed subscriptions using a request;

a first memory storing a user interface controller executed 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 the common business object model, the hierarchical organization of the first message package including;

at a first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed settings query message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed settings package comprising, at a second hierarchical level in the first message package, a user feed settings entity, where the user feed settings entity includes, at a third hierarchical level in the first message package, a universally unique identifier (UUID), system administrative data, a feed user identity UUID, a textual indicator that specifies whether or not requests to follow the feed user are accepted automatically, and at least one feed user identity; and

a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of service interfaces executed 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 service interfaces processes the message via the service interface according to the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the message includes unpacking the first message package based on the first message package'"'"'s structure and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from 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 message.

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

13. The distributed system of claim 11, wherein the first memory is remote from the second memory.