Enterprise gamification system for awarding employee performance

US8768751B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Juergen Jakowski · Wiesloch, DE
• Brian McKellar · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 25, 2012
• Grant date: Jul 1, 2014
• Expiry date: Apr 25, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2203/04803
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for gathering gamification data from business applications. Common gamification data that describes a user that accesses a business software environment, and specific gamification data that describes the user and is specific to a particular computer system in the business environment are identified at a user interface of a client device in response to a request from a gamification engine. By executing gamification logic in the user interface, the common gamification data and the specific gamification data are collected at the user interface and provided to the gamification engine. For example, the gamification data can be gathered by monitoring interactions between the user and the client device that is connected to the gamification engine at the user interface, and provided to the gamification engine independent of the business computer system to which the client device is connected.