Configurable provider for layered repository

US10719488B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP SE · DE

Inventors

• Markus Viol · Walldorf, DE
• Lars Erbe · Waghäusel, DE
• Stefan Haffner · Hockenheim, DE
• Alexander Rauh · Weinheim, DE
• Carsten Brandt · Chemnitz, DE
• Felix Riegger · Mannheim, DE
• Christian Voshage · Eppelheim, DE
• Axel Warner · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 22, 2017
• Grant date: Jul 21, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 15, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/217
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for creating and utilizing configuration providers for layered repository facilities. An embodiment operates by creating or loading a custom data structure for a software application, retrieving configuration information from at least one configuration provider, storing the retrieved configuration information in the custom data structure, and associating the custom data structure with the application and a specific layer of a layered repository facility. When this is done across multiple layers of the layered repository for the same software application, configurations can be efficiently managed for different users having different roles and relationships within an enterprise software environment, while maintaining a user experience that is flexible, extensible, dynamic, and yet consistent and familiar across many devices and platforms, even for users having multiple roles and different relationships within the enterprise software environment.