Configuring and operating applications using a descriptor

US10157068B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP SE · DE

Inventors

• Silke Arians · Hamburg, DE
• Volker Driesen · Heidelberg, DE
• Iouri Loukachev · Walldorf, DE
• Tim Back · Mannheim, DE
• Peter Muessig · Untereisesheim, DE
• Andreas Hoffner · Östringen, DE
• Markus Cherdron · Östringen, DE
• Frank Brunswig · Heidelberg, DE
• Alexander Lingg · Heidelberg, DE
• Stefan Beck · Eriskirch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 2015
• Grant date: Dec 18, 2018
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L41/0806
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for development, deliver, deployment and operation of an application includes at least one memory including instructions on a computing device and at least one processor on the computing device. The processor is operably coupled to the at least one memory and is arranged and configured to execute the instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to implement an application within a platform associated with a namespace for the platform, where the platform is one platform of a plurality of platforms. The processor implements a descriptor having an identifier that uniquely associates the descriptor with the application, where the descriptor comprises a single file that is platform independent and that includes a plurality of namespaces and application-specific attributes for each of the namespaces to enable the application to operate on multiple different platforms using the same descriptor.