US 10,896,206 B2Granted

Offline defaulting service

AssigneeSap SE

InventorsThomas Biesemann, Alexander Fuerbach

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Abstract

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing default values for fields of data objects in an offline mode. One example method includes receiving, at a client device, a default group mapping that includes a default group identifier and a default value to be used as an initial value for a field. A field mapping can be received that includes a default group identifier and a field identifier. A request can be received while the client device is offline to create an instance of an object. A determination can be made that the field mapping includes a field identifier for a field of the object. A default value can be retrieved, from a local repository on the client device. A field value of the field in a created instance of the data object can be set to be the default value.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, at a client device and from a server, one or more default group mappings, wherein each default group mapping includes a respective default group identifier and a corresponding default value to be used as an initial value for at least one data object field;
receiving, at the client device and from the server, one or more field default mappings, wherein each field default mapping includes a respective default group identifier and a corresponding data object field identifier;
storing the default group mappings and the field default mappings in a local repository of the client device;
determining whether the client device is offline, wherein determining that the client device is offline indicates that a connection to the server is unavailable, or that a connection speed or quality of a connection to the server is below an online session threshold, and wherein determining that the client device is not offline indicates that the client device is connected to the server;
in response to determining that the client device is offline:
receiving a request, while the client device is offline, to create an instance of a first data object;
and
creating the instance of the first data object in response to the received request, wherein creating the instance of the first data object includes:
determining that the stored field default mappings include a data object field identifier for a field of the first data object;
retrieving, from the local repository, a default value for the field from the stored default group mappings, wherein the default value was identified and received from the server while the client device was online;
and
setting a field value of the field in the instance of the data object to be the default value;
and
in response to determining that the client device is not offline:
receiving a request to create an instance of a second data object;
and
creating the instance of the second data object in response to the received request, wherein creating the instance of the second data object includes:
retrieving, from the server, a default value for a field of the second data object, wherein the default value for the field of the second data object is identified and received from the server while the client device is online;
and
setting a field value of the field in the instance of the second data object to be the default value.

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A system comprising:

one or more computers;
and
a computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at a client device and from a server, one or more default group mappings, wherein each default group mapping includes a respective default group identifier and a corresponding default value to be used as an initial value for at least one data object field;
receiving, at the client device and from the server, one or more field default mappings, wherein each field default mapping includes a respective default group identifier and a corresponding data object field identifier;
storing the default group mappings and the field default mappings in a local repository of the client device;
determining whether the client device is offline, wherein determining that the client device is offline indicates that a connection to the server is unavailable, or that a connection speed or quality of a connection to the server is below an online session threshold, and wherein determining that the client device is not offline indicates that the client device is connected to the server;
in response to determining that the client device is offline:
receiving a request, while the client device is offline, to create an instance of a first data object;
and
creating the instance of the first data object in response to the received request, wherein creating the instance of the first data object includes:
determining that the stored field default mappings include a data object field identifier for a field of the first data object;
retrieving, from the local repository, a default value for the field from the stored default group mappings, wherein the default value was identified and received from the server while the client device was online;
and
setting a field value of the field in the instance of the data object to be the default value;
and
in response to determining that the client device is not offline:
receiving a request to create an instance of a second data object;
and
creating the instance of the second data object in response to the received request, wherein creating the instance of the second data object includes:
retrieving, from the server, a default value for a field of the second data object;
and
setting a field value of the field in the instance of the second data object to be the default value.

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A computer program product encoded on a non-transitory storage medium, the product comprising non-transitory, computer readable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving, at a client device and from a server, one or more default group mappings, wherein each default group mapping includes a respective default group identifier and a corresponding default value to be used as an initial value for at least one data object field;
receiving, at the client device and from the server, one or more field default mappings, wherein each field default mapping includes a respective default group identifier and a corresponding data object field identifier;
storing the default group mappings and the field default mappings in a local repository of the client device;
determining whether the client device is offline, wherein determining that the client device is offline indicates that a connection to the server is unavailable, or that a connection speed or quality of a connection to the server is below an online session threshold, and wherein determining that the client device is not offline indicates that the client device is connected to the server;
in response to determining that the client device is offline:
receiving a request, while the client device is offline, to create an instance of a first data object;
and
creating the instance of the first data object in response to the received request, wherein creating the instance of the first data object includes:
determining that the stored field default mappings include a data object field identifier for a field of the first data object;
retrieving, from the local repository, a default value for the field from the stored default group mappings, wherein the default value was identified and received from the server while the client device was online;
and
setting a field value of the field in the instance of the data object to be the default value;
and
in response to determining that the client device is not offline:
receiving a request to create an instance of a second data object;
and
creating the instance of the second data object in response to the received request, wherein creating the instance of the second data object includes:
retrieving, from the server, a default value for a field of the second data object;
and
setting a field value of the field in the instance of the second data object to be the default value.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/816,153Filed 17 Nov 2017
Published: US 2019/0155939 A123 May 2019
Granted: 19 Jan 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 16/285
Relational databases: clustering or classification
G06Q 10/10
Administration; Management: office automation; Time management
G06F 16/214
Design, administration or maintenance of databases: database migration support
G06F 16/2219
Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures: large Object storage; Management thereof