Architectural design for time recording application software

US8688495B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Matthias Tebbe · Walldorf, DE
• Otfried Von Geisau · Sinsheim, DE
• Ralf Klein · Midlothian, US
• Dieter Krisch · Karlsruhe, DE
• Joachim Kenntner · Heidelberg, DE
• Peter Fitz · Waldsee, DE
• Peter J. Neumayer · Edenkoben, DE
• Markus Biehler · Landau, DE
• Kai-Michael Roesner · Blankenloch, DE
• Gerd Moosmann · Pforzheim, DE
• Jens Freund · Heidelberg, DE
• Peter Latocha · Malsch, DE
• Stefan Kaetker · Dossenheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 30, 2005
• Grant date: Apr 1, 2014
• Expiry date: May 13, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing time recording. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service interface operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Project Processing component that is responsible for structuring, planning, and executing measures or projects, a Time and Labor Management process component that supports the definition of employees' planned working time as well as the recording or the actual working times and absences, an Accounting process component that records relevant business transactions, and a Goods and Service Acknowledgement process component that includes the Goods and Service Acknowledgement business object, which is a document that states the recipient's obligation to pay the supplier for goods received or services rendered.