Context control

US8533584B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Kerstin Dittmar · Rheinstetten, DE
• Carsten Fuchs · Wiesloch, DE
• Bernhard Teltscher · Speyer, DE
• Ingo Deck · Mannheim, DE
• Susann Stieler · Heidelberg, DE
• Martin Schrepp · Hockenheim, DE
• Annett Hardt · Mannheim, DE
• Theo Held · Wiesloch, DE
• Dietrich Mayer-Ullmann · Ilvesheim, DE
• Nadine Beigel · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE
• Hena Mau · Heidelberg, DE
• Martin Wegmann · Worms, DE
• Stefan Kirchfeld · Walldorf, DE
• Edward Palmer · San Antonio, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 31, 2008
• Grant date: Sep 10, 2013
• Expiry date: Apr 5, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A context control interface may include a context name field that is arranged and configured to identify a working context, one or more attribute name fields that are configured to identify one or more attributes that define the working context and one or more attribute value fields that are arranged and configured to correspond to the attribute name fields and to define one or more values for the attribute name fields. The attribute name fields and the corresponding attribute value fields may be mapped to a first set of fields in a first application and may be mapped to second set of fields in a second application and the attributes and the values populate the first set of fields and the second set of fields such that the working context is persistent across the first application and the second application, where the first application differs from the second application.