US 8,713,477 B2Granted

Presenting a link to a user

AssigneeSap SE

InventorsSandra Bicker, Iris Nieder, Annett Hardt, Ingo Deck, Erik Oster, Till Brinkmann, Boris Bierbaum, Martin Dauer, Theo Held, Martin Schrepp

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Abstract

Presenting links to a user includes: (i) identifying at least one of several work center screens to be made available to a user on a screen. Each work center screen is customizable and contains role-specific information associated with a topic in an enterprise resource computing system. (ii): for each identified work center screen, any screen of a particular type to which the user can directly navigate from the work center screen is identified. (iii): the screen includes: (A) for each identified work center screen, a first link providing navigation to the corresponding work center screen, and (B) for each first link, a second link to each screen of the particular type identified for the corresponding work center screen, providing navigation to the identified screen without visiting the work center screen, the second link displayed to indicate an association with the first link.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying, by a computing system, a first page that includes a first link that is configured to cause navigation from the first page to a second page in response to a first type of user selection of the first link, wherein the second page includes multiple second links that are configured to cause navigation to multiple third pages, respectively;
receiving, by the computing system, a second type of user selection of the first link in the first page;
identifying, by the computing system, a role of a user who has logged in to view the first page based upon an employee status of the user;
identifying, by the computing system, that a setting that is specific to the role of the user specifies a particular type of page, from among a collection of different types of pages, to which the first page should provide direct navigation;
determining, by the computing system, a subset of the second links in the second page to include in a menu on the first page based upon an identification that the subset of the second links are configured to provide navigation to those of the third pages that are of the particular type of page;
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displaying, by the computing system and as a result of having received the second type of user selection of the first link and as a result of having determined the subset of the second links in the second page to include in the menu on the first page, the menu on the first page with the subset of the second links in the menu.

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A machine-readable storage device including instructions that, when executed by one or more computer processors, cause performance of operations that comprise:

displaying, by a computing system, a first page that includes a first link that is configured to cause navigation from the first page to a second page in response to a first type of user selection of the first link, wherein the second page includes multiple second links that are configured to cause navigation to multiple third pages, respectively;
receiving, by the computing system, a second type of user selection of the first link in the first page;
identifying, by the computing system, a role of a user who has logged in to view the first page based upon an employee status of the user;
identifying, by the computing system, that a setting that is specific to the role of the user specifies a particular type of page, from among a collection of different types of pages, to which the first page should provide direct navigation;
determining, by the computing system, a subset of the second links in the second page to include in a menu on the first page based upon an identification that the subset of the second links are configured to provide navigation to those of the third pages that are of the particular type of page;
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displaying, by the computing system and as a result of having received the second type of user selection of the first link and as a result of having determined the subset of the second links in the second page to include in the menu on the first page, the menu on the first page with the subset of the second links in the menu, wherein the menu does not include a link that is configured to cause navigation to any of the third pages that are not the particular type of page.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.