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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156469 | Single composition of pattern modules A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating an application based on a selection of one or more application patterns. A model of an operation of the application is generated. A design time application component to provide conten... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156211 | Transitioning from dynamic cluster management to virtualized cluster management Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for transitioning one or more aspect of a dynamic cluster of computers to one or more virtual machines. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include re... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156208 | Hierarchical, multi-tiered mapping and monitoring architecture for service-to-device re-mapping for smart items A service repository is used to store at least one service in association with service metadata describing service requirements of the service. The service repository also may store one or more platform-specific service executables. A service mapper is used to deter... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156172 | Monitoring and reporting enterprise data using a message-based data exchange Systems and techniques for monitoring and reporting enterprise data by using a message-based data exchange. In one general aspect, the invention features a computer-implemented method that includes receiving at a message hub one or more messages from one or more sou... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156143 | System and method of reconciling human resource database A system and method to reconcile Human Resource databases, including payroll, accounting, tax and travel databases, are provided. The system and method may include a database aggregation component that automatically gathers and stores a plurality of databases in a c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156142 | Semantically weighted searching in a governed corpus of terms A method and system for conducting semantically weighted searches in a governed corpus of terms is provided. A search expression having a plurality of terms for performing a search in the governed corpus of terms is received. The governed corpus of terms comprises a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156137 | Data processing systems and methods Data processing system(s) and methods are disclosed. An enterprise services framework interface is provided for receiving a service request from a service consumer for performing a database access and a database for storing transactional data. Further, repository me... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156124 | Systems and methods for performing authorization Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for performing an authorization check for a user. In one implementation, a data processing system is provided that includes means for storing first data descriptive of at least one directed acyclic graph a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156021 | Data processing system and method for transmitting of payment advice data Systems and methods for transmitting payment advice data from a payment computer system to a payee computer system are provided. An exemplary method may include generating a payment order and payment advice data. The method may further include generating a unique id... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155991 | Systems and methods for supporting object allocation processes Systems and methods are disclosed for supporting at least one allocation process for an allocation of objects in at least one application by way of an allocation framework pre-configured for the allocation process, with at least one monitoring and control unit and a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155772 | Method and system for integrating a restriction object with a material object A method and system for integrating a restriction object with a material object is provided. A reference is generated between a material object and a restriction object. A restriction note is received from a supplier having a material restriction for a material in t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151257 | Managing different versions of server components regarding compatibility with collaborating servers A system and method for determining whether a rolling update may be performed. The system receives a statement of compatibility for software running on collaborating servers. The statement of compatibility indicates which software versions are compatible with one an... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151247 | Test data management Methods and apparatuses enable generating test content for test system from an executed transaction of an execution system. The data resulting from the execution of the transaction in the execution system is accessed and used to generate test content for a test case... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151203 | Manipulating a data source using a graphical user interface A target audience for a marketing campaign is selected using a graphical user interface. A first graphical representation of a customer data attribute is dragged from a first window and dropped in a second window. A second graphical representation of a customer data... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150904 | Distribution of data and task instances in grid environments A partition analyzer may be configured to designate a data partition within a database of a grid network, and to perform a mapping of the data partition to a task of an application, the application to be at least partially executed within the grid network. A provisi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150888 | Automatic elimination of functional dependencies between columns In business systems, one or more methods can be used to reduce an amount of redundant data. In one implementation, a method to reduce redundancy within a data model in a database, in which the data model is represented by at least one table, includes determining a n... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150871 | Operational information providers In a computer program product, system and method for retrieving operational data, a front-end unit generates a query for operational data. In an embodiment, in response to the generation of the query, an operational information provider is sent to a back-end unit to... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150749 | Systems and methods for general aggregation of characteristics and key figures Computer-implemented methods, computer systems, and computer programs product are provided for automated generic and parallel aggregation of characteristics and key figures of unsorted mass data being of specific economic interest, particularly associated with finan... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150041 | Secure computation of private values An embodiment may include a system having a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be configured to receive an encrypted private value of a party, the encrypted private value being generated from a private value with a public-key encryp... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146103 | Aggregation and evaluation of monitoring events from heterogeneous systems A system and method for monitoring activity of heterogeneous systems within a business application landscape are disclosed. An object state change is detected in an object instance of one or more systems of the business application landscape. Each object state chang... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146102 | Development environment for groupware integration with enterprise applications This disclosure relates to application integration and, more particularly, groupware integration with enterprise applications. Various embodiments herein provide systems, methods, and software to integrate one or more computer applications with one or more groupware... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146100 | System and method for event-based information flow in software development processes A method including receiving a plurality of event descriptors, each event descriptor of the plurality of event descriptors corresponding to a respective event relevant to a software development process, transmitting the plurality of event descriptors to a subscriber... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8146096 | Method and system for implementing built-in web services endpoints A method and system for processing Web service messages within an object oriented runtime environment is described. In one embodiment, the method includes steps for invoking a single instance of a state-less protocol for processing inbound and outbound flows of Web ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145681 | System and methods for generating manufacturing data objects Systems and methods consistent with the invention may include generating, using a processor of the computer system, a definition file of a first format for the data object, generating a database table, generating a mapping between the definition file and the databas... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145626 | Method and system for data processing using multidimensional filtering In one embodiment the present invention includes a method comprising receiving a data filter for filtering a collection of data, wherein the collection of data is configured as a star schema including a fact table and dimension tables. The data filter is applied aga... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145606 | System, method, and software for enforcing information retention using uniform retention rules Methods, systems, and software for enforcing archival of data objects into archive objects and managed destruction of the archive objects are disclosed. In some cases, the computer techniques include enforcing a retention rule, such as a retention date and archive p... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145468 | Non-intrusive model annotation Development models of software applications may be annotated with additional information and transformed within a transformation chain into a resulting model that may be used to evaluate the development model, for example, for simulation and/or performance support o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140987 | GUI modeling of web services The disclosure provides various embodiments of systems and methods for GUI modeling of web services. One method is a computer implemented method including presenting a plurality of web services to a user through a graphical user interface, with each web service comp... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140866 | Secure storage in file system A node may contain a secure store agent. A process executing on the node may request connection information from the secure store agent. An encryption key phrase may be accessed, responsive to the request for connection information, to decrypt the requested connecti... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140678 | Failover protection from a failed worker node in a shared memory system A method is described that involves entering a notification of a request into a queue that supplies request notifications to a first worker node amongst a plurality of worker nodes. The first worker node is targeted to process the request. In response to the first w... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140594 | Advanced message mapping with sub-object key mapping A method of sharing data includes storing a central data object in the central computer system, the data object including an attribute and a plurality of values for the attribute and creating a first mapping between the values of the attribute stored in the central ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140580 | Aggregating persisted operational data in a distributed environment Coordinating persisted data in a distributed system, in which persisted data is stored with identifiers that indicate a hierarchical relationship of the persisted data with a business scenario. When operation data is stored as a record of a transaction within the di... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140564 | Generating search and select tables A graphical user interface including, in a single table, a search pane on a top portion, a results section on a bottom portion, and a selected items section in a middle portion between the top portion and the bottom portion is provided. Thereafter, first user-genera... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140545 | Data organization and evaluation using a two-topology configuration A computer-implemented method for organizing data in a two-topology configuration is disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of nodes, each node including data relating to a corresponding object state, and linking each of at least one of the plurality o... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140487 | Methods, systems and software applications for storing, updating and retrieving key figures Methods, systems and software applications are provided for storing, updating and retrieving key figures. In accordance with one embodiment, a computerized method is provided for storing values of a variable key figure over time. The method comprises storing a value... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140470 | Unified and extensible implementation of a change state ID for update services based on a hash calculation In a method and system for updating data in a distributed system, a server receives a request to read data stored in the server. A data structure is populated with the requested data, and a first unique identifier is generated by applying a hash function to the data... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140383 | Derived and automated key performance indicator reports In a computing system, a selection of a predefined key performance indicator that is associated with a plurality of predefined dimensions and with definitional data is received. A dimension value for at least one of the predefined dimensions, at least first and seco... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136099 | Method and system for automatically generating executable processes from inter-organizational workflows A method and system to automatically translate a definition of a choreography workflow process to an executable process are provided. The method includes processing a collaboration element from the definition, mapping the collaboration element to an executable eleme... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135841 | Method and system for maintaining a grid computing environment having hierarchical relations A method includes, in a grid computing environment, maintaining systems having grid managers having hierarchical relations, the relations of each grid manager stored in each of the systems. Each of these hierarchical relations are classified as superior or inferior.... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135716 | Systems and method for mapping large object data content in a database table to a work area According to some embodiments, a programming language in an application server may include access to different database server implementations, wherein the programming language accesses content of database tables via work areas derived from the database tables. A da... | 03/13/2012 |
