Control center pages

• US 20040131050A1
• Filed: 09/15/2003
• Published: 07/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Eberleh, Edmund, Haussler, Annette, Beringer, Joerg, Hatscher, Michael, Wood, Eric, Nieves, Sandra, Tso, Emil, Lee, Chinhao, Harbusch, Matthias
• Granted Patent: US 7,849,175 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Systems and techniques to provide control center pages in a portal. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes enabling a user of a portal to navigate between control level pages and execution level pages without losing work performed in the execution level pages. The control level includes user-centric control center page(s) that provide the user with personal resources and serve as an anchor, or “home”, page.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

in a portal,

presenting a control level page in a first browser session; and

presenting an execution level page in a second browser session while maintaining the first browser session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the control level page includes messages and work triggers.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the control level page includes trackable work objects.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the control level page includes links to services and objects in an execution level page.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the services and objects correspond to a user'"'"'s workset.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the control level page includes a user'"'"'s personal files and contacts.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the control level page includes links to one or more workset areas.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving work performed on the execution level page;

navigating to the control level page without saving the work performed in the execution level page; and

navigating back to the execution level page, the execution level page preserving the work performed before said navigating to the control level page.

9. An enterprise management consolidation system comprising:

a cross functional application to provide communication between at least one of an object modeling tool, a process modeling tool, and a user interface tool, wherein the user interface tool is configured to;

in a portal,

present a control level page in a first browser session; and

present an execution level page in a second browser session while maintaining the first browser session.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the control level page includes messages and work triggers.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the control level page includes trackable work objects.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the control level page includes links to services and objects in an execution level page.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the services and objects correspond to a user'"'"'s workset.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the control level page includes a user'"'"'s personal files and contacts.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the control level page includes links to one or more workset areas.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the user interface tool is further configured to:

receive work performed on the execution level page;

navigate to the control level page without saving the work performed in the execution level page; and

navigate back to the execution level page, the execution level page preserving the work performed before said navigating to the control level page.