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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100005298 | Resource scheduling in workflow management systems A system for improved scheduling of resources within a Workflow-Management-System or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS). Based on a new resource specification comprised within a process model and associated with an activity, the WFMS determines the r... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090222536 | Dynamic Portal Assembly The present invention provides a Dynamic Portal Assembly for Portals which provides the function to manipulate whole topology tree of a Portal at runtime. Topology Fragments, that are partial topology trees, are computed by software components called Adapters and are me... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090077380 | Resource scheduling in workflow management systems A system for improved scheduling of resources within a Workflow-Management-System or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS). Based on a new resource specification comprised within a process model and associated with an activity, the WFMS determines the r... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20080281659 | Method and Apparatus for Optimization in Workflow Management Systems Activities within a workflow are either data management activities (DMAs) or non-DMAs. A workflow is typically carried out by a system by executing one activity after the other. This can, however, be very time consuming. A method and system are provided for optimizing a... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080243524 | System and Method for Automating Internal Controls A computer-based system and method to enforce, monitor, and assess internal controls over financial reporting is provided. A bottom-up approach is used to model transaction-control workflows using logs of past transaction activity executions. Past workflows are reconstr... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20070143166 | STATISTICAL METHOD FOR AUTONOMIC AND SELF-ORGANIZING BUSINESS PROCESSES In a Workflow Management System with a workflow having a sequence of activities of an underlying business process, logical wait situations occur when a given activity depends upon completion of a prerequisite preparation activity. A method for decreasing the resulting r... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070055557 | Method and apparatus for optimization in workflow management systems Activities within a workflow are either data management activities (DMAs) or non-DMAs. A workflow is typically carried out by a system by executing one activity after the other. This can, however, be very time consuming. A method and system are provided for optimizing a... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20060112062 | Controlling the creation of process instances in workflow management systems The present invention relates to a technique for controlling the creation of process instances within an execution environment such as a Workflow Management Sytem. Upon receiving a request to create a process instance and corresponding input data to be processed by the ... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060041641 | Managing resources through user-facing web services aggregated in portals The present invention relates to a method and respective system for managing the administration of electronic resources accessible in an electronic-network: A solution is offered, in which grid resources or services are enhanced with a presentation interface that provid... | 02/23/2006 |
| 20050283352 | Evaluation of process expressions on the basis of deployment information The invention provides a method, a data processing system and a computer program product for evaluating an expression of a process model. The process model has at least one activity that is adapted to invoke at least one port type provided by a web service. The inventiv... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050209841 | Optimization of process properties for workflows with failing activities The present invention provides a method, a data processing system as well as a computer program product for optimizing process properties for workflows with failing activities. The invention makes use of monitoring occurrence of failure of each activity of a process mod... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050165809 | Technique for improving staff queries in a workflow management system A technique for improving staff queries within a process model of a workflow is provided. A workflow management system selects a set of individuals of a staff or resources to perform an activity of the process model based on a staff query. The members of the set act as ... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050055664 | Notification spheres in workflow management systems The current invention relates to a technology for handling of notifications within a Workflow Management System or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS). WFMS control the execution of an instance of a process-model with activities as well as rules defin... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050049906 | Provisioning of software components via workflow management systems For a software component to be installed on a target computer system a product dependency graph is determined which identifies additional software components required by the to-be-installed software component as prerequisite or corequisite software components. For each ... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050015293 | Collaboration enhanced workflow system A collaboration enhanced workflow system includes an interface unit at least to provide an interface to a workflow system for performing a selected workflow and an interface to a collaboration system within which the actors of the current instance of the selected workfl... | 01/20/2005 |
