US 8,818,975 B2Granted

Data model access configuration and customization

AssigneeSap SE

InventorsWerner Aigner, Ralf Ehret, Roman Moehl

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Abstract

Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to publish one or more stored back end data models accessible to a user interface and a development environment; to receive a configuration context; to generate derived model attributes by filtering, according to the configuration context, back end data attributes associated with the stored back end data models; to derive a set of mapping rules based on the derived model attributes; and store the set of mapping rules to be used to direct run-time data model request transformation activity. Further activities may include receiving an end-user request from a displayed user interface, transforming the end-user request into a transformed request according to the stored set of mapping rules, and transmitting the transformed request to one of the stored back end data models. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a processing node coupled to a display to publish at least one stored application-agnostic generic back end data model accessible to a user interface and a development environment;
and
an analysis module to couple to the processing node, the analysis module configured to
receive an enterprise-specific configuration context,
filter generic back end data attributes associated with the at least one stored application-agnostic generic back end data model based on the enterprise-specific configuration context, to generate enterprise-specific derived model attributes associated with an enterprise-specific derived data model,
generate an enterprise-specific user interface based on the enterprise-specific derived model attributes, and
derive a set of mapping rules based on the enterprise-specific derived model attributes, the mapping rules to transform an end-user request received via the enterprise-specific user interface into a transformed request that communicates directly with the at least one stored application-agnostic generic back end data model,
wherein the processing node is further configured to publish one of a modified catalog or a modified sales order via the enterprise-specific user interface, the modified catalog and the modified sales order derived from an original catalog and an original sales order, respectively, and the set of mapping rules.

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A processor-implemented method to execute on one or more processors that perform the method, comprising:

publishing at least one stored application-agnostic generic back end data model accessible to a user interface and a development environment;
receiving an enterprise-specific configuration context;
filtering generic back end data attributes associated with the at least one stored application-agnostic generic back end data model based on the enterprise-specific configuration context, to generate enterprise-specific derived model attributes associated with an enterprise-specific derived data model;
generating an enterprise-specific user interface based on the enterprise-specific derived model attributes;
deriving a set of mapping rules based on the enterprise-specific derived model attributes, the mapping rules to transform an end-user request received via the enterprise-specific user interface into a transformed request that communicates directly with the at least one stored application-agnostic generic back end data model;
storing the set of mapping rules to be used to direct run-time data model request transformation activity based on the end-user request received via the enterprise-specific user interface;
and
publishing one of a modified catalog or a modified sales order via the enterprise-specific user interface, the modified catalog and the modified sales order derived from an original catalog and an original sales order, respectively, and the set of mapping rules.

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A processor-implemented method to execute on one or more processors that perform the method, comprising:

receiving an end-user request via an enterprise-specific user interface, the enterprise-specific user interface being generated based on enterprise-specific derived model attributes;
transforming the end-user request into a transformed request according to a stored set of mapping rules, the set of mapping rules derived from a previously-selected enterprise-specific configuration context, a stored application-agnostic generic back end data model, and the enterprise-specific derived model attributes,
wherein generic back end data attributes associated with the stored application-agnostic generic back end data model are filtered based on the enterprise-specific configuration context, to generate the enterprise-specific derived model attributes associated with an enterprise-specific derived data model;
transmitting the transformed request to the stored application-agnostic generic back end data model;
and
publishing one of a modified catalog or a modified sales order via the enterprise-specific user interface, the modified catalog and the modified sales order derived from an original catalog and an original sales order, respectively, and the set of mapping rules.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.