Apparatus and product of manufacture for using condition data structures separately from rule data structures in business transactions

US7756808B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Matthias Weigt · Oettingen, DE
• Gregor Kempers · Essen, DE
• Marco Rodeck · Maikammer, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 5, 2005
• Grant date: Jul 13, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 13, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques enable a user, such as a business analyst or a system administrator, to define business process rules that control the processing of transaction data by a computer application. A data structure is used to store business process rules. The data structure includes a condition portion and an execution portion of a rule. At runtime, the computer system executing a computer application determines whether a condition portion of a rule is met, and in response to a determination that the condition portion is met, performs an execution portion of the rule.