Dynamic presentation of contextual business component data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9875464-B2
Application number	US-201213645040-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 4, 2012
Priority date	Oct 4, 2012
Publication date	Jan 23, 2018
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018

Abstract

Various arrangements for organizing business components for use in creating a business object are presented. A selection of a business context may be received from a plurality of business contexts. After receiving the selection of the business context, for each business component of the plurality of business components, whether the business component is within the received business context or outside of the received business context may be determined. An indicator may be assigned to each business component of the plurality of business components based on the business component being determined as being within the received business context or outside of the received business context. Each business component of the plurality of business components with the business component's assigned indicator may be presented.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for organizing business components for use in creating a business object, the method comprising:
presenting, by a computer system, a graphical user interface of a first application, the graphical user interface allowing selection of one or more business components from a plurality of business components for creating a business object;
receiving, by the computer system, a selection of a business context from the graphical user interface, the business context being selected from a plurality of business contexts;
after receiving the selection of the business context, determining, by the computer system, for each business component of the plurality of business components, whether the business component is within the received business context or outside of the received business context by querying a database containing relationships of business components to business contexts, wherein:
each business component of the plurality of business components comprises:
a category,
a data type, and
an association with a business context from the plurality of business contexts;

assigning, by the computer system, a first indicator to each business component of the plurality of business components that was determined to be within the received business context, the first indicator identifying the business component as being within the received business context;
assigning, by the computer system, a second indicator to each business component of the plurality of business components that was determined to be outside of the received business context, the second indicator identifying the business component as being outside of the received business context;
presenting, by the computer system in the graphical user interface, each business component of the plurality of business components with a visual indication of the business component's assigned indicator, wherein at least business components that are assigned the first indicator are available for use in creating the business object;
receiving, by the computer system, a selection of one or more business components from the graphical user interface, each of the one or more business components in the selection being within the received business context;
generating, by the computer system, the business object using the one or more business components in the selection of the one or more business components; and
outputting, by the computer system, the business object for use by a second application.

2. The method for organizing business components for use in creating the business object of claim 1 , wherein the business context indicates a specific industry or geographic location.

3. The method for organizing business components for use in creating the business object of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of business contexts is organized as a hierarchy, such that at least one business context has at least one child business context.

4. The method for organizing business components for use in creating the business object of claim 3 , further comprising:
for each business component of the plurality of business components that is determined to be within the received business context, determining if the business component has an ancestor business component in the hierarchy; and
for each business component of the plurality of business components that is determined to be outside the received business context, determining if the business component has an ancestor business component in the hierarchy.

5. The method for organizing business components for use in creating the business object of claim 4 , wherein assigning the first indicator to each business component of the plurality of business components that was determined to be within the received business context comprises:
assigning, by the computer system, a first type of first indicator to business components of the plurality of business components that are within the received business context and do not have an ancestor business component in the hierarchy; and
assigning, by the computer system, a second type of first indicator to business components of the plurality of business components that are within the received business context and have an ancestor business component in the hierarchy; and
wherein assigning the second indicator to each business component of the plurality of business components that was determined to be outside the received business context comprises:
assigning, by the computer system, a first type of second indicator to business components of the plurality of business components that are outside the received business context and do not have an ancestor business component in the hierarchy; and
assigning, by the computer system, a second type of second indicator to business components of the plurality of business components that are outside the received business context and have an ancestor business component in the hierarchy.

6. The method for organizing business components for use in creating the business object of claim 5 , wherein presenting each business component of the plurality of business components with the business component's assigned indicator comprises presenting each business component of the plurality of business components with either the assigned first type of first indicator, the assigned second type of first indicator, the assigned first type of second indicator, or the assigned second type of second indicator.

7. The method for organizing business components for use in creating the business object of claim 1 , further comprising:
after presenting each business component of the plurality of business components with the business component's assigned indicator, receiving, by the computer system, a second selection of a second business context from the plurality of business contexts;
after receiving the second selection of the business context, determining, by the computer system, for each business component of the plurality of business components, whether the business component is within the second received business context or outside of the second received business context;
assigning, by the computer system, the first indicator to each business component of the plurality of business components that was determined to be within the second received business context, the first indicator being modified to identify the business component as being within the second received business context;
assigning, by the computer system, the second indicator to each business component of the plurality of business components that was determined to be outside of the second received business context, the second indicator being modified to identify the business component as being outside of the second received business context; and
presenting, by the computer system in the graphical user interface, each business component of the plurality of business components with a visual indication of the business component's assigned modified indicator.

8. The method for organizing business components for use in creating the business object of claim 1 , the method further comprising:
receiving, by the computer system, a selection of a business component that is within the received business context for use in creating the business object.

9. The method for organizing business components for use in creating the business object of claim 1 , wherein each first and second indicator is a graphical element displayed within the graphical user interface.

10. A computer program product residing on a non-transitory processor-readable medium for organizing business components for use in creating a business object, the computer program product comprising processor-readable instructions configured to c

Assignees

• Oracle Int Corp

Inventors

• Rafique Arif
• Gravenites Greg
• Gray Carli
• Modi Rajan M
• Ramanathan Satish

Classifications

• G06Q10/10 Primary

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