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Background documentationEnterprise Services for Intellectual Property Management

 

Enterprise services enable you to carry out tasks related to Intellectual Property management by way of composite applications or within integration scenarios involving third-party systems.

For more information about enterprise services, see Service Oriented Architecture on SAP Community Network, at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/soa.

Enterprise Services for Intellectual Property Management

Process Component Intellectual Property Rights Inventory Management

The process component Intellectual Property Rights Inventory Management enables access to the rights inventory in the Intellectual Property Management application in SAP CRM. In this way, companies can receive accurate and up-to-date information about the rights availability of intellectual property (IP).

  • Business object — Intellectual Property Rights Availability Inquiry

    This process component features the business object Intellectual Property Rights Availability Inquiry, which is an inquiry into the rights to an Intellectual Property, which can be restricted to a certain period of time, a certain market segment, and a certain quantity.

  • Operations

    • Simulate Inquiry Confirmation Rights Group

      Used to check the rights availability status for several pieces of intellectual property

    • Simulate Inquiry Confirmation Rights Group as Bulk

      Used to submit multiple simulated rights availability requests within the same service operation

    • Simulate Inquiry Single Product

      Used to simulate the detailed rights availability of a single piece of intellectual property

Process Component License Usage Confirmation Processing

  • Business object — License Contract Usage Report

    This process component features the business object License Contract Usage Report, which is a master data object that contains license usage confirmation data.

  • Operations

    • Maintain Report as Bulk

      Used to send a license usage confirmation report

    • Confirm Report as Bulk

      Used to confirm receipt of license usage data

Process Component Product Data Maintenance

The process component Product Data Maintenance enables a company to manage all product data that describes its tangible and intangible products and that is relevant to control its business processes, such as sales, purchasing, planning, production, and accounting processes.

  • Business object — Intellectual Property

    This process component features the business object Intellectual Property which is a master data object that represents an Intellectual Property.

  • Operations

    • Create Intellectual Property

      Used to create an instance of an Intellectual Property business object

    • Update Intellectual Property

      Used to update an instance of the Intellectual Property business object

    • Find Intellectual Property Basic Data by Elements

      Used to find Intellectual Properties according to search criteria and to display their basic data

    • Read Intellectual Property

      Used to read the details of an Intellectual Property

To use the Enterprise Services associated with this business object, you must activate the business function Intellectual Property Management (CRM_IPM_1).