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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2005
Applicants:
Shuyuan Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kaj Van DE Loo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shuyuan Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kaj Van De Loo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
SAP AG, Walldorf, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an automated way for a non-technical person to create or modify software functionality in support of a business process without needing expertise in software. According to the invention, an automated matching tool may apply user input expressed semantically to a database of semantic information associated with syntactic information, to match the user input with a service (e.g., an application program) capable of performing a business process step corresponding to the input.