Message-Based Interface for Sales Territory Data Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current business interfaces are not consistent across industries and departments, leading to difficulties in exchanging information between heterogeneous business entities due to differences in semantics, formatting, and programming systems, requiring human intervention and lacking standardized solutions.
Innovation Solution
A message-based interface is generated from a common business object model, enabling consistent semantics and hierarchical organization to facilitate information exchange between sales territories and accounts, using a service registry and message packages with defined services, allowing for automated processing and communication across heterogeneous applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If heterogeneous business entities use their own proprietary interfaces and semantics, then each business entity can maintain its own business logic and programming standards, but information exchange between different business entities becomes difficult and requires human intervention
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a message-based interface as an intermediary layer between heterogeneous business entities. This interface uses standardized message packages with consistent semantics to mediate information exchange, allowing businesses to maintain their own proprietary systems while enabling automated communication through the standardized message format that translates between different business entity interfaces
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal message-based interface that can handle multiple types of business transactions and information exchanges across different industries and business entities. The standardized message packages are designed to be multi-functional, supporting various business operations (sales, purchasing, logistics, etc.) through a common interface framework that works across heterogeneous systems
2Adaptability or versatility
If different business entities use different semantics and formatting standards, then each entity can optimize its own systems for its specific purposes, but the exchange of information becomes complex and requires human facilitation
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized message-based interface acts as an intermediary that simplifies complex information exchange by providing a uniform message structure. Instead of dealing with multiple proprietary interfaces directly, business entities communicate through standardized message packages that handle semantic translation and formatting differences, reducing interface complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments information exchange into standardized message packages with distinct components (message header, message body, message trailer). This segmentation allows each business entity to specialize in their own data formats while the standardized structure handles the complexity of integration, separating concerns between proprietary business logic and communication protocols
3Ease of manufacture
If proprietary interfaces are used by each business entity, then business logic can be tightly integrated with specific programming systems, but automated processing across different businesses becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The message-based interface serves as an automated intermediary that enables machine-to-machine communication between heterogeneous business entities. The standardized message packages with consistent semantics allow automated processing systems to exchange information without human intervention, while still maintaining tight integration with proprietary business logic through the translation layer provided by the standardized interface
Data Source
AI summary
A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a sales territory business object.