Nancy Chuang Friedman

US Patent:

20070100857, May 3, 2007

Filed:

Oct 31, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/263316

Inventors:

Ross DeGrande - Ocean NJ, US
Nancy Friedman - Apex NC, US
Garfield Vaughn - South Windsor CT, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707101000

Abstract:

In general, the present invention provides a computer-implemented method, system, tool, and program product for storing a document in an enterprise software environment, such as SAP. Specifically, under the present invention, a hierarchical structure is provided for linking a business document. The hierarchical structure includes a plurality of levels that each represent a business entity level such as enterprise, company, customer, contract and revision. Additionally, standardized attributes may be chosen for association with the business document. The invention also provides a search engine for searching for a document that has previously been linked to the hierarchical structure. These searches may be performed using such factors as the level in the hierarchy and/or the specified attributes.