ZERO DOWNTIME MAINTENANCE WITH MAXIMUM BUSINESS FUNCTIONALITY

Patent №

US 9,767,424

Granted

2017-09-19

Filed 2013

Owner

SAP AG

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14055650

The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing multi-level user interface theming. One computer-implemented method includes instantiating a shadow system and database schema for a new version software application in a shared database, the shadow system database schema containing aliases pointing to tables instantiated in a production database schema, instantiating a bridge database schema containing aliases pointing to each database table within the production database schema, preparing a bridge sub-system connected to the bridge database schema aliases, replicating database tables within the production database schema, for use by the bridge sub-system and adjusting the original database tables for structure and content consistent with the new version software application, deploying an upgrade sub-system and tools to complete adjustment of structure and content of the original database tables, and connecting an instantiated instance of the new version software application to adjusted database tables.

PlanningG06Q 10/0631G06Q 10/06

AI classification

Planning0.63
AI hardware0.24
Natural language0.01
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

SAP AG

assignment · 316030427

Assignors

BIEWALD, LARS-ERIC, DRIESEN, VOLKER, ENGELKO, ANDREY, HAFERKORN, ANDRE, HARTIG, MARTIN, HOPRICH, WIELAND, KONRAD, HEIKO, LUETTGE, CHRISTOPH, MAYER, MARTIN, MEISSNER, STEFFEN, MITTELSTEIN, MATTHIAS, SPECHT, JUERGEN

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