Creating, editing, and displaying hierarchical data structures associated with data in a data source

US7363315B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Claudia Binder · Schwetzingen, DE
• Andreas Deutesfeld · Altlußheim, DE
• Thomas Goring · Wiesloch, DE
• Gerhard Weigelt · Walldorf, DE
• Vladislav Bezrukov · Sandhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 22, 2005
• Grant date: Apr 22, 2008
• Expiry date: Dec 31, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F8/34
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and systems, including computer program products, implementing techniques for configuring data structures. The techniques include receiving a description of a logical structure of a data model, the logical structure comprising a first set of elements; displaying a first display structure in a graphical user interface (GUI), the first display structure being a graphical representation of the description of the logical structure, the first display structure comprising visual representations of the elements of the logical structure; generating a data structure based on one or more user-selected visual representations of the elements of the logical structure, the data structure comprising a second set of elements; and displaying a second display structure in the GUI, the second display structure being a graphical representation of the data structure, the second display structure comprising visual representations of the elements of the data structure.