1. A computer-implemented method for integrating data and process flow of a sales system with a legacy system of a third party, the method comprising:
determining a configuration of the legacy system, including identifying legacy sales processes performed by the legacy system and legacy sales databases stored on the legacy system;
mapping preexisting sales applications of the sales system for performing predefined sales-related functionality and preexisting sales databases of the sales system to the legacy system based on the configuration of the legacy system, including identifying a subset of the legacy sales processes to replace with preexisting sales applications and identifying a subset of the legacy sales databases to replace with preexisting sales databases; and
replacing the subset of the legacy sales processes with the preexisting sales applications and the subset of the legacy sales databases with the preexisting sales databases, wherein data is communicated between the preexisting sales databases and the legacy sales databases.
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising the step of customizing the sales databases of the sales system and a transaction engine of the sales system to accommodate the configuration of the legacy system.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the step of mapping further includes logically connecting sales-related data of the sales system to the legacy system based on the configuration of the legacy system, wherein the sales-related data of the sales system includes customer data, product data, and price data.
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the step of mapping further includes logically connecting the preexisting sales databases to sales-related legacy data stored on the legacy system based on the configuration of the legacy system, wherein the sales-related legacy data includes customer data, product data, and price data.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising the step of customizing the predefined sales-related functionality based on the configuration of the legacy system.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising the step of customizing the sales databases of the sales system by modifying data structures therein based on the configuration of the legacy system.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A communication apparatus for aggregating, at a base station side, communication resources at different frequencies andor different transmission time, wherein a scheduling resource among the aggregated communication resources is used for transmitting control information about the scheduling resource and scheduled resources, the communication apparatus comprising:
a grouping unit configured to divide the communication resources into groups based on characteristics of the communication resources, wherein a same group of communication resources is indicated by a same piece of control information; and
a sending unit configured to send the control information to a corresponding communication terminal side by the scheduling resource.
2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
the communication resources are carriers with different frequencies.
3. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:
the scheduled resources are carriers of a New Carrier Type.
4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
the communication resources are sub-frames with different transmission time.
5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
the sending unit is further configured to indicate, by using an enhanced resource indicator field of each piece of control information, which communication resource or resources the control information relates to, when sending the control information.
6. The communication apparatus according to claim 5, wherein:
the length of the enhanced resource indicator field is predetermined or related to the number of communication resources.
7. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
the sending unit is further configured to indicate, by using a redundant codeword in a resource indicator field of each piece of control information, which communication resource or resources the control information relates to, when sending the control information.
8. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a resource indication scheme selection unit configured to select a scheme for indicating a correspondence relationship between the control information and the communication resource or resources.
9. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:
the characteristics of the communication resources are Channel Quality Indicators, CQIs, between the base station side and the corresponding communication terminal side, provided by the respective communication resources.
10. The communication apparatus according to claim 9, wherein:
the communication resources, of which the values of the CQIs are 1 to 6 are attributed to one group, the communication resources, of which the values of the CQIs are 7 to 9 are attributed to one group, and the communication resources, of which the values of the CQIs are 10 to 15 are attributed to one group.
11. A communication apparatus for aggregating, at a communication terminal side, communication resources at different frequencies andor at different transmission time, wherein a scheduling resource among the aggregated communication resources is used for transmitting control information about the scheduling resource and scheduled resources, the communication apparatus comprising:
a resource characteristic sending unit configured to provide characteristics of the communication resources to a base station side; and
a control information receiving unit configured to receive the control information by the scheduling resource and to process the communication resources based on the control information, wherein the communication resources are divided into groups based on the characteristics of the communication resources, and a same group of communication resources is indicated by a same piece of control information.
12. The communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein:
the communication resources are carriers with different frequencies.
13. The communication apparatus according to claim 12, wherein:
the scheduled resource are carriers of a new carrier type.
14. The communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein:
the communication resources are sub-frames at different transmission time.
15. The communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein:
the control information receiving unit is further configured to identify, by using an enhanced resource indicator field of each piece of control information, which communication resource or resources the control information relates to, when receiving the control information.
16. The communication apparatus according to claim 15, wherein:
the length of the enhanced resource indicator field is predetermined or related to the number of the communication resources.
17. The communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein:
the control information receiving unit is further configured to identify, by using a redundant codeword in a resource indicator field of each piece of control information, which communication resource or resources the control information relates to, when receiving the control information.
18. The communication apparatus according to claim 11, wherein:
the characteristics of the communication resources are Channel Quality Indicators, CQIs, between the communication terminal side and the corresponding base station side, provided by the respective communication resources.
19. A communication method for aggregating, at a base station side, communication resources at different frequencies andor different transmission time, wherein a scheduling resource among the aggregated communication resources is used for transmitting control information about the scheduling resource and scheduled resources, the communication method comprising:
dividing the communication resources into groups based on characteristics of the communication resources, wherein a same group of communication resources is indicated by a same piece of control information; and
sending the control information to the corresponding communication terminal side by the scheduling resource.
20. A communication method for aggregating, at a communication terminal side, communication resources at different frequencies andor different transmission time, wherein a scheduling resource among the aggregated communication resources is used for transmitting control information about the scheduling resource and scheduled resources, the method comprising
providing the characteristics of the communication resources to the base station; and
receiving the control information by the scheduling resource and processing the communication resources based on the control information, wherein the communication resources being divided into groups based on characteristics of the communication resources, a same group of communication resources being indicated by a same piece of control information.