Patent Document ID: 8423418
Application ID: 12060062

Base Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for performing a work center service, the medium comprising: program code for 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 providing, from a resource data management system to a consumer system, a response to a query providing details for a single work center, where work centers are used in order processing to specify scheduling, capacity planning, and costing data associated with a business operation, the first message including a first message package derived from the common business object model and hierarchically organized as: a work center enterprise resource processing (ERP) by identifier (ID) response message entity; and a work center package and a log package, where the work center package includes a work center entity, where the work center entity includes an ID, a plant ID, a type code, a type name, a usage code, a usage name, and where the log package includes a log entity, where the log package stores information associated with the response; program code for 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 program code for 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.

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Claim 4:
4. The medium of claim 1 , wherein the work center entity further includes at least one of an employee responsible ID, a logistics area ID, a logistics area type code, a logistics area type name, a location code, a location name, and a compensation component type ID.