Enterprise application platform

US7496687B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BEA Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Philip B. Griffin · Longmont, US
• Troy Hallock · Longmont, US
• Brad Posner · Erie, US
• Patrick Osborne · Boulder, US
• Olivier Libouban · Lafayette, US
• Manish Devgan · Herndon, US
• Ravi Rohra · Harrison, US
• Jitendra Gupta · Pleasanton, US
• Somenath Sengupta · Edison, US
• Hung Trien Ma · Poway, US
• Chengjiang Lin · Bound Brook, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 1, 2003
• Grant date: Feb 24, 2009
• Expiry date: Mar 16, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/188
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A business platform can provide access to applications and provide for the integration of resources with other applications, including internal and external applications, services and systems. A portal framework included within the platform can render portals including graphical user interfaces for displaying and receiving content that can be used by various applications. A portal framework can provide an interface to various resources such that information received and displayed by the portal framework can be exchanged with internal and external resources using standards-based transport protocols, messaging systems, and document types. An integration framework can be invoked to exchange this information among applications and services. An integration framework can provide access to resources by integrating the resources with an application server. The portal framework and integration framework can be implemented on an application server which can support enterprise applications. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specificat…