SAP Assigned Patent

SAP SE, Walldorf, Deutschland, has been assigned a patent (8,983,913) developed by Held, Dominik, Waghaeusel, Deutschland, for a “system and method for business-driven archiving.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A computer system maintains a repository of software products. The software products include a plurality of business processes, and each business process includes a business object. The system maintains a plurality of archiving objects, and further maintains a mapping of each business process to at least one business object, a mapping of each business object to at least one related database table, and a mapping of each database table to at least one related archiving object. The system receives a selection of a business process for which data is to be archived, and uses the mapping of the each business process to the at least one business object, the mapping of the each business object to the at least one database table, and the mapping of the each database table to the at least one archiving object to determine the database tables to transmit to the archiving objects.“

The patent application was filed on June 29, 2012 (13/537,442).