Intelligent business object document system

US7908305B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Randy Dee Baxter · Rochester, US
• Vincent Edmund Price · Wake Forest, US
• Sterling R. Smith · Apex, US
• Christopher H. L. Wicher · Raleigh, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 15, 2008
• Grant date: Mar 15, 2011
• Expiry date: May 1, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0282
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for providing an integrated environment for processing business object documents (BODs). The integrated environment utilizes an IntelliBod system to employ standard business semantics while adapting modified business terms. Applications requesting integration, or mapping, map to common business semantics of the BODs, and the IntelliBOD system manages the business semantic (and technical) integration of the applications. IntelliBOD systems utilize JAVA environments to process requests, thereby reducing cost and space required to maintain general purpose middleware.