Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dean Charles McCrae

Jacob Winther

Uno Junghans

Hans Kierulff

Anders Olesen

Arne De Booij

Finnur Geir Sæmundsson

Stuart Glasson

Tsvi Michael Reiter

Torben Wind Meyhoff

Lars-Bo Christiansen

Mehmet Kerem Kiziltunc

Esben Nyhuus Kristoffersen

Tsvi M Reiter

Jesper Boelsmand

Palle D Larsen

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A business programming library for use by an enterprise resource planning system provides a run-time environment and a library of API services for accessing common data types and business methods, accessing table and form meta-data, and database administration and retrieval/modification. The library provides the ability to safely call into exposed services using multiple threads, and also provides indirect and executable permission checking for increasing system security.

Multi-threaded business programming library

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A system to enables Rapid Application Development ('RAD') is provided. The system provides an object model of an ERP application, which enables software developers to customize the ERP applications. The object model provides a base class that is inherited by each object class. The base class provides an invoke function that is implemented by each object class. During compilation, the RAD system compiles each invocation of a function of an object into a call to a dynamic component passing an identifier of the object, an identifier of the function to be invoked, and the parameters to be passed to the function. The RAD system dynamically compiles, assembles, and instantiates object classes as needed. Because objects are bound at runtime, rather than at compile time, when the source code of an object is modified, the entire ERP application does not need to be recompiled into monolithic IL code and the compilation of object classes is deferred until an object of that class is needed during runtime. The object model thus significantly decreases the time required to customize and extend an ERP application according to the needs of an individual customer.

Rapid application development

A system and method of enforcing Enterprise Resource Planning ('ERP') software object permissions in a three-tiered architecture is provided. A user connects to the three-tiered architecture via an enhanced client, which connects to a database server via a middle-tier server. The database server stores code and permission information for each database object. When a user connects to the system, the user's permissions are retrieved and stored at the middle-tier server. The user may then access data by instantiating objects at the middle-tier server by compiling and executing code retrieved from the database server. The middle-tier server performs permission checking for accessing database objects and provides environments for executing both managed and unmanaged code. The middle-tier server can perform permission checking for users and objects without accessing the database server.

Enforcement of object permissions in enterprise resource planning software

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Kastrup, Denmark

Dean Charles McCrae