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Side-effect modeling

US7860902B2 · kind B2 · utility

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16References

12Claims

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Assignee

SAP AG · DE

Inventors

Rainer Brendle · Trochtelfingen, DE
Johannes Viegener · Karlsruhe, DE
Stephan Ritter · Braunschweig, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 23, 2003
Grant date	Dec 28, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 2, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/252
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing to a client a definition of an object representing attributes of a first collection of data elements and an operation on the first collection, each data element having attributes and the operation in common with other data elements from the first collection, the definition comprising an effect of executing the operation on a second collection of data elements. This also includes receiving from a client a request to execute the operation on one or more data elements from the first collection, executing the operation on one or more data elements from the first collection, and updating a copy of one or more data elements from the second collection according to the effect of executing the operation.

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