ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,716, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Cross-functional application data attachment retrieval" was invented by Stefan Hesse (Dresden, Germany) and Matthias Vogel (Saarbrucken, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an implementation, a request for one or more attachments stored in an application document store is received from a requestor and by an application agent associated with an application. For each attachment identified in the request, the application agent: 1) requests the attachment from a data privacy integration (DPI) kernel service; 2) receives a download link to an attachment in the applic...