Patent ID: 8204920
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method providing contextual access to data via access of a host data system by a user, said method comprising the following steps: defining a host system including computer hardware basis used by at least one user to access data, said computer hardware basis including a database in which data is held; defining at least one process model within the host data system, and defining a plurality of elements within said process model; defining at least one target data system to be selectively directly accessed via the user selection of an element of the process model in the host data system by selectively accessing and obtaining data directly from the target data system from the database; creating an activator which specifies properties of the at least one target data system, said activator including a wrapper and a specification; creating a wrapper having programmable elements that define interfaces between the at least one target system and said element in the process model in the host data system and which also defines the operation of the activator; instantiating the activator for said element in the process model in the host data system and said at least one target system by adding values for the specification properties, creating a representation of the at least one target system with regard to said element in the process model in the host data system; and the host data system includes in the computer hardware database, said process model to which the created representation of said at least one target data system is added and the user uses the host data system via the process model to access said at least one target system instance via the activator, by selecting an element to which the target system is linked, said activator controlling or manipulating the target data system from the host data system via the target system representation within the process model which presents data obtained from the computer hardware database to the user in a screen display, and wherein the process model is repeated for each of the elements of the process model for which a target system is required thereby generating a process model with a series of elements which can be user selected to access a specific target system linked thereto and wherein the target system representation formed in the host data system presents values and/or data obtained directly by the user selecting an element and the host data s stem includes a frame work and/or specification as to the presentation of the retrieved target system data which is dependent upon the particular target system from which it came.