Patent · US Active

Categorizing an object

US8862578B2 · kind B2 · utility

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21Claims

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Assignee

SAP AG · DE

Inventors

Knut Heusermann · Bad Schönborn, DE
Juan Carlos Martinez · Madrid, ES
Ingo Bruss · Heidelberg, DE
Christiane Kuntz-Mayr · Schifferstadt, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 30, 2004
Grant date	Oct 14, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 19, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/10
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An object may be categorized upon distribution of the object from a sender system to a recipient system. The object may be assigned to at least one recipient category in a recipient category hierarchy according to a first predefined mapping from a sender category hierarchy to the recipient category hierarchy. The object is initially assigned to a sender category in the sender category hierarchy. There is applied to the object a second predefined mapping from the recipient category hierarchy to the sender category hierarchy. It is determined whether the first and second predefined mappings converge. If the first and second predefined mappings do not converge, there may be executed a rule-based reassignment algorithm to make the first and second predefined mappings converge.

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