Self-describing business objects

US7533103B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Brendle · Trochtelfingen, DE
• Frank Brunswig · Heidelberg, DE
• Josef Dietl · Schallstadt, DE
• Rolf Krane · Wiesloch, DE
• Juergen Remmel · Östringen, DE
• Stephan Ritter · Braunschweig, DE
• Johannes Viegener · Karlsruhe, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 23, 2003
• Grant date: May 12, 2009
• Expiry date: Feb 5, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99933
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, that include representing, in a repository, services from a server, the services including interacting with one or more collections of data elements using a set of operations on the data elements in the collections, the repository comprising descriptions of the collections and common attributes for each collection, the repository organized according to a meta model. The method also includes enabling a software entity to request a service represented in the repository, the service representing a first operation on one or more data elements in a first collection from the collections, and executing the first operation on the one or more data elements in the first collection.