Method for effecting software maintenance in a software system landscape and computer system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7721257
APP PUB NO 20060117311A1
SERIAL NO

11262543

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A method for effecting software maintenance in a software system landscape comprising a central control system and a plurality of logical systems interconnected by logical transport paths, each system having associated therewith one of a plurality of system roles is described. The method comprises: providing system role types, each system role type comprising a group of system roles; providing an association of tasks to system role types; providing a transport track that defines a route for software services through a group of systems in a particular order and specifies one source system in which software services are permitted, adjacent interconnected systems, and at least one target system, each software service relating to at least one of the code and the data of at least one system in the landscape; and generating a maintenance instance from the system role types, the association and the transport tracks, the maintenance instance defining tasks for effecting a software service in a maintenance interval.

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Demuth, Michael Rauenberg, DE 10 84
Schulz, Volker Heppenheim, DE 21 245
Stegmuller, Herbert Bruchsal, DE 6 72

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