Facilitating communication between enterprise software applications

US8954602B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP SE · DE

Inventors

• Hartwig Seifert · Elchesheim-Illingen, DE
• Otto Boehrer · Wiesloch, DE
• Artur Godlinski · Heidelberg, DE
• Joerg Kessler · Schallstadt, DE
• Jens Kisker · Heidelberg, DE
• Thomas Kunz · Neckargemünd, DE
• Eugen Pritzkau · Wiesloch, DE
• Stefan Rossmanith · Walldorf, DE
• Duong-Han Tran · Bad Schönborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 31, 2012
• Grant date: Feb 10, 2015
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/541
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating communication between enterprise software applications. Some enterprise software systems communicate using a message protocol designed for use with an exchange system. Those systems require the exchange system to communicate using that message protocol. To communicate with systems using that message protocol, a local system can build a message formatted in accordance with the message protocol, even without an exchange system. The local system stores configuration data and uses the configuration data to build the message.