Providing accounting software application as enterprise services

US8442850B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Martin Schorr · Wiesloch, DE
• Michael Sylvester · Münstermaifeld, DE
• Georg Dopf · Schwetzingen, DE
• Dirk Henrich · Wiesloch, DE
• Gunther Liebich · Walldorf, DE
• Michael Conrad · Oftersheim, DE
• Andreas Reccius · Walldorf, DE
• Markus Klein · Glückstadt, DE
• Michael Hohendorf · Waghäusel, DE
• Andrea Roesinger · Weinheim, DE
• Rainer Soltek · Weinheim, DE
• Juergen Kind · Östringen, DE
• Ralf Dinkel · Waibstadt, DE
• Peter Von Zimmermann · Angelbachtal, DE
• Daniel Bock · Heidelberg, DE
• Udo Laub · Hambrücken, DE
• Thomas Schachner · Heidelberg, DE
• Gerald Paetzold · Heidelberg, DE
• Kai-Michael Roesner · Blankenloch, DE
• Edwin Himmelsbach · Heidelberg, DE
• Torsten Bachmann · St. Leon-Rot, DE
• Volker Faisst · Ilvesheim, DE
• Otfried Geisau · Sinsheim, DE
• Michael Meyringer · Wiesloch, DE
• Ralf Klein · Midlothian, US
• Dieter Krisch · Karlsruhe, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 2006
• Grant date: May 14, 2013
• Expiry date: May 29, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/1097
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having accounting functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.