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US 12,008,104 B2Granted
Transport security in business applications
AssigneeOnapsis Inc.
InventorsPeter Werner, Thomas Fritsch
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Abstract
Security can be improved in a business application, such as an enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) system, by verifying and testing transports within the system or between systems. In one embodiment, a transport is verified by a transport profiler to ensure proper functioning and compliance. In one embodiment, the transport profiler may include visualization functionality for visualizing the transport between systems.
Claims20
A method for analyzing multiple transports comprising:
- identifying a critical transport from the multiple transports, wherein the critical transport comprises one of the multiple transports with critical changes;
- removing the critical transport;
- determining, using objects from the multiple transports, which of the multiple transports are dependent on the critical transport, wherein any of the multiple transports that share any of the objects with the critical transport are determined to be dependent and also identified as another critical transport;
- iteratively repeating the removing and determining steps for the identified another critical transport, wherein additional dependent transports are determined from the another critical transport and the removing and determining are iteratively repeated until the determining fails to determine any additional critical transports;
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- providing, when there are no additional critical transports, an import recommendation for the multiple transports, wherein the import recommendation comprises all of the multiple transports that were not determined to be dependent or identified as a critical transport.
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In a business application, a computer system for verifying a transport, comprising:
- a source computer system configured to provide a plurality of transports;
- a destination computer system coupled with the source computer system to receive the transports from the source computer system;
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- a transport profiler configured to analyze the transports prior to transmission from the source computer system to the destination system, wherein the analysis of the transports comprises:
- identifying a critical transport from the transports, wherein the critical transport comprises one of the transports with critical changes;
- removing the critical transport from the transports;
- determining, using objects from the transports that have been modified, which of the transports are dependent on the critical transport, wherein any of the other transports that share any of the objects with the critical transport are determined to be dependent and identified as another critical transport;
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- iteratively repeating the removing and determining steps for the identified another critical transport, wherein additional dependent transports are determined from the another critical transport and the removing and determining are iteratively repeated until the determining fails to determine any additional critical transports.
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A method for verifying a transport in a business application, the method comprising:
- preparing to provide, from a source computer system to a destination computer system, a transport;
- verifying, with a transport profiler, operation of the destination computer system with the transport, wherein a plug-in is installed at both the source computer system and the destination computer system, wherein the plug-in is for the verifying of the transport, further wherein the transport profiler is stored in a central computer system separate from the source computer system and the destination computer system;
- removing the transport when the verifying cannot confirm the transport operates with the destination computer system;
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- receiving, at a destination computer system, the transport when the verifying confirms the transport operates with the destination computer system.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.