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20130085801 | Supply Chain Performance Management Tool Having Predictive Capabilities - A method for providing a supply chain management tool may include generating a representation of a supply chain of an organization where the representation is generated responsive to identification of supply chain entities and corresponding flows therebetween. The flows may include transactional layer activities at a stock keeping unit level. The method may further include referencing the representation to determine historical data indicative of supply chain performance, and utilizing processing circuitry to employ the historical data to generate at least one prediction regarding future operating performance of the supply chain. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085812 | Supply Chain Performance Management Tool for Profiling A Supply Chain - A method for providing a supply chain performance management tool may include receiving an identification of supply chain entities and corresponding operational activities therebetween for an organization to generate a functional representation of the supply chain, receiving natively formatted data from the entities of the organization where the natively formatted data is indicative of transactional layer activities, converting, via processing circuitry, the natively formatted data to processed data using a rule set for data conversion developed for the organization, and associating the processed data to the functional representation for generation of one or more reports indicative of supply chain performance. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085813 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Providing a Supply Chain Performance Management Tool - A method for providing a supply chain performance management tool may include profiling a supply chain by obtaining data indicative of stock keeping unit level activity associated with flows of items between entities within the supply chain of an organization, cleansing, via processing circuitry, the obtained data based on reconciliation of input from each functional category of entities within the supply chain, and providing performance results based on the cleansed data. | 04-04-2013 |
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20100217696 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CHARGING-STATE DEPENDENT DETERMINATION OF SERVICE ACCESS TARIFF RATES BY BID PROCESS - Methods and devices for charging a user for access to a service accessible via a communication network are disclosed. At least two charging-related states are defined for the communication network. A tariff proposal entity associated with the user determines one or more tariff proposals for charging the user for accessing the service and sends the one or more tariff proposals to a rating entity. The rating entity analyzes the one or more tariff proposals in relation to a current charging-related state of the at least two charging-related states, wherein it is determined if at least one of the one or more tariff proposals complies with at least one tariff setting associated with the current charging-related state. The rating entity further selects a tariff of the at least one complying tariff proposals for charging the user for access to the service and initiates a charging of the user for access to the service according to the selected tariff. | 08-26-2010 |
20100218202 | Method and Apparatus for Case-Based Service Composition - An apparatus for creating composite services includes a processing unit which identifies at least one constituent component for a composite service by a processor unit. The constituent component has a runtime state. The apparatus includes a data-store having past composition decisions and corresponding runtime states. The processing unit locates a past composition decision regarding the constituent component that has essentially the equivalent runtime state in the data-store, and reuses the past composition decision for the constituent component for the composite service. A method for creating composite services includes the steps of identifying at least one constituent component for a composite service by a processor unit, the constituent component having a runtime state. There is the step of locating a past composition decision regarding the constituent component that has essentially the equivalent runtime state in a data-store by the processing unit. There is the step of reusing the past composition decision for the constituent component for the composite service by the processor unit. | 08-26-2010 |
20110142216 | CONTROLLING THE CHARGING OF A COMPOSITE SERVICE - Methods and devices for controlling a charging of a composite service in a telecommunications network are described. The composite service comprises an invocation of a constituent service. The telecommunications network comprises a control node for controlling the composite service, a service node for providing the constituent service, and a charging system for performing the charging. The method comprises the steps of receiving from the service node a first usage report comprising charging indicators related to the invocation of the constituent service, receiving from the control node control information related to the composite service, the control information indicating that the invocation of the constituent service is associated to the invocation of the composite service, generating a further usage report by changing the charging indicators according to the control information, and sending the further usage report to the charging system to instruct the charging system to perform the charging according to the further usage report. | 06-16-2011 |
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20130013760 | Method for Coordinating the Provision of a Composite Services - A method for coordinating the execution of a composed service in a service execution coordination unit on request by a service composition server is disclosed, wherein the service is composed of at least a first and a second component service instance. The method comprises: receiving an instruction for invoking the first component service instance from the service composition server, receiving an instruction for invoking the second component service instance from the service composition server, contacting a respective one of the one or more application servers for invoking the first component service instance, and in response to receiving a service invocation result from invoking the first service automatically contacting the respective one of the of the one or more application servers for invoking the second of the one or more component service instances. | 01-10-2013 |
20130046812 | Application Server and Method for Managing a Service - An application server ( | 02-21-2013 |
20140101743 | Method for authenticating a user to a service of a service provider - Methods, devices, and computer programs for an authentication of a user to a service of a service provider are disclosed. Access for the user to the service of the service provider is requested. One or more authentication security profiles are selected by the service provider for specifying an authentication security requirement of the service provider for the authentication of the user to the service. An indication of the one or more selected authentication security profiles and a user identity identifying the user to an identity provider are sent from the service provider to the identity provider for requesting the authentication of the user by the identity provider. The user is authenticated based on the user identity and one of the one or more selected authentication security profiles. An assertion indicating the authentication of the user to the service provider is sent to the service provider. | 04-10-2014 |
20140136592 | FLEXIBLE DATA COMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to a processing entity ( | 05-15-2014 |