Patent ID: 8924269
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information regarding customer invoices, the program code operable when executed by a processor to perform one or more operations, the operations comprising: receiving via a message-based interface derived from a common business object model, where the common business object model includes business objects having relationships that enable derivation of message-based interfaces and message packages, the message-based interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry and from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, a first message for requesting settlement of business transactions related to goods and services associated with a customer invoice that includes first message package derived from the common business object model and hierarchically organized in memory as: processing the first message according to the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the first message includes unpacking the first message package based on the common business object model; and sending a second message to the heterogeneous application responsive to the first message, where the second message includes a second message package derived from the common business object model to provide consistent semantics with the first message package.