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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2003
Nardo B. Catahan, Jr., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Ying-chieh Lan, Foster City, CA (US);
Roy Chia-jih Liu, Fremont, CA (US);
Joshua Roper, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nardo B. Catahan, Jr., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Ying-Chieh Lan, Foster City, CA (US);
Roy Chia-Jih Liu, Fremont, CA (US);
Joshua Roper, San Francisco, CA (US);
Siebel Systems, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide methods and data structures for the effective and efficient synchronization or inter-exchange of invoice information between business applications employing disparate DOFs. For one embodiment, a DOF is provided that allows for relationships between entities, also referred to as invoices, to be modeled as attributes of an entity and for customization of the DOF in a manner that facilitates upgrading of the DOF. For one embodiment, the invoice DOF is provided in a common software language such as XML. For one embodiment, invoice information from each of several business applications is translated to a common DOF. The invoice information, in the common DOF, is then inter-exchanged among the several business applications. Each application has only to translate the invoice information from the common DOF to the application-specific DOF of the respective business application.