System and method for a healthcare communication framework

US8626526B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Kai-Uwe Lemke · Ulm, DE
• Ali Gerhard Tafazzoli-Yazdi · Heidelberg, DE
• Mark Anthony Oshifeso · Regensdorf, CH
• Wolfram Puechert · Speyer, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 2009
• Grant date: Jan 7, 2014
• Expiry date: Sep 7, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H10/40
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is described for asynchronous service-based communication. The method includes steps of generating events in an application layer of a computer software system, storing the generated events in a database table and scanning the database table by a process of a healthcare communication framework (HCF) at a time after the generated events are stored. The computer software system can run on a computer implementing the HCF and the generated events targeting service operations exported by another software system. During each scan the process is configured to group the events in the database table into packages based on a respective context of each event. For each package: consistency is checked for each event contained in the package, a consolidation logic is applied to consolidate events contained in the package, services operations associated with each event not being consolidated are found, and the service operations are invoked asynchronously.