Apparatus and product of manufacture using execution points to select conditions and rules for business transaction processing

US7756809B2 · 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 6, 2005
• Grant date: Jul 13, 2010
• Expiry date: May 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. A rule may be associated with an external execution point, which, in turn, is associated with an application execution point in the transaction process. At runtime, the computer system executing a computer application when determines that an application execution point is reached, the computer system determines whether there is an external execution point associated with the application execution point, and if so, executes the execution portion of a rule associated with the external execution point if the condition portion of the rule is met.