Process integration persistency

US7844659B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Baeuerle · Walldorf, DE
• Guenter Pecht-Seibert · Östringen, DE
• Jan Teichmann · Hamburg, DE
• Andreas Brossler · Leingarten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 3, 2006
• Grant date: Nov 30, 2010
• Expiry date: Mar 29, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/08
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The addition of a datastore to an application system using process agents for communication allows for maintaining a persistent state by storing records of messages sent between process agents. These records may be retrievable by process agents in order to determine the state of the system. This allows process agents to update previous transactions without storing a copy of messages within each process agent or communicating with every potentially involved process agent to determine its current state.