Thomas R Workman

US Patent:

20140095253, Apr 3, 2014

Filed:

Sep 26, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/037851

Inventors:

- Redwood Shores CA, US
DAVID J. BELL - FOLSOM CA, US
JILLIAN HARTNELL - GRANITE BAY CA, US
THERESE GORMAN - RIO RANCHO NM, US
THOMAS WORKMAN - LAYTON UT, US
TAMIJSELVY MURALIDHARAN - CUPERTINO CA, US
CYRIL JOSE THEOPHILOSE PONVILA - BANGALORE, IN
HSIAOWEN EDDIE MOU - BRENTWOOD CA, US
UMESH MADHAV APTE - SAN RAMON CA, US
JOHN LEONG YEE - SAN MATEO CA, US
JOSE HERNANDEZ - HAYWARD CA, US
HUI DONG - RICHMOND, CA

Assignee:

ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION - REDWOOD SHORES CA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/02

US Classification:

705 729

Abstract:

Embodiments of the invention provide for performing a search across business objects of one or more business processes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for performing a search across business objects of one or more business processes based on an index of business objects and additional information supplementing the index. The additional information can indicate business objects of different types or of different business processes that are related to the indexed business objects. According to various embodiments of the present invention, providing business object and business process searching can include but is not limited to: the ability to more quickly find related documents using search in one step; the ability to do so without using menus; the ability to quickly refine search results with common facets; and/or the ability to do advanced common attributes searches across business objects such as comments for a supplier across numerous business objects.