US 12,216,716 B2
Cross-functional application data attachment retrieval
Stefan Hesse, Dresden (DE); and Matthias Vogel, Saarbrücken (DE)
Assigned to SAP SE, Walldorf (DE)
Filed by SAP SE, Walldorf (DE)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/049,063.
Prior Publication US 2024/0134917 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0241911 A9, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 21/33 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 16/93 (2019.01) [G06F 21/33 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, from a requestor and by an application agent associated with an application, a request for one or more attachment
s stored in an application document store;
for each attachment identified in the request, the application agent:
requests the attachment from a data privacy integration (DPI) kernel service, wherein the DPI kernel service comprises a DPI integrated personal data retrieval (iPDR) agent and a DPI iPDR attachment repository;
requesting, by the DPI iPDR agent and to the DPI iPDR attachment repository, metadata describing a download source of an attachment in the application document store;
receiving, by the DPI iPDR agent, the metadata;
receives, from the DPI kernel service, a download link to the attachment in the application document store, wherein the download link is received by the DPI kernel service directly from the application document store;
downloads, using the download link and directly from the application document store, the attachment;
informs the DPI kernel service that a download of the attachment is complete; and
receives, from the DPI kernel service, a message that the download link has been deactivated, wherein the message that the download link has been deactivated is received directly from the application document store; and
returning, by the application agent the one or more attachments to the requestor.