Apparatus and product of manufacture for adaptive business transaction rule structures

US7761396B2 · 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 20, 2010
• Expiry date: May 20, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q99/00
• 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 and to assign a collection of business process rules to one of multiple predefined points in a business process of a computer application. At runtime, when the computer system executing the computer application reaches a point in a business process that is associated with a collection of user-defined business process rules, the computer system executes the business process rules. In this manner, a customized process represented by user-defined business process rules is able to be added to a computer application.