Patent ID: 8417593
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for performing an individual material bill of material service, the interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry, wherein upon execution the program code executes in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services and comprises: program code for receiving, from a service consumer, a first message for processing information for a list that comprises the elements defining and describing the components to assemble an individual material bill of material; program code for invoking an individual material bill of material business object, wherein the business object is a logically centralized, semantically disjointed object for representing information for a list that comprises the elements defining and describing the components to assemble an individual material bill of material, and comprises data logically organized as: program code for initiating transmission of a message to a heterogeneous second application, executing in the environment of computer systems providing message-based services, based on the data in the individual material bill of material business object, the message comprising an individual material bill of material message entity, a message header package, and an individual material bill of material package.