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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7523174 | Dynamic portal assembly A Dynamic Portal Assembly for Portals for manipulating a topology tree of a Portal at runtime. Topology Fragments, that are partial topology trees, are computed by Adapters and are merged with existing trees at run time. The Adapters base the computation on the stat... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7499906 | 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 optimizi... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7475073 | 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... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7406483 | 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 e... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403878 | Using nodes for representing hyper-edges in process models The current invention relates to a definition of a process model in a Workflow Management System or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS) wherein said process model is modeling at least one hyper-edge said hyper-edge representing a boundary within s... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398525 | 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 t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7386577 | Dynamic determination of transaction boundaries in workflow systems Transactions within a process model are determined by grouping a set of individual process activities into a single transaction. This effectively reduces the processing overhead, and, therefore, improves the overall throughput and latency of the execution of the pro... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7174338 | Signaling events in workflow management systems The present invention provides a computerized method for determining an addressee of a signaling request within a Workflow Management System or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS). Upon receiving a signaling request, which is providing a set of si... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7024669 | Managing workload within workflow-management-systems A computerized method of managing workload within a Workflow-Management-System (WFMS), the WFMS having a process-model, the process-model including one or more activities being the nodes of an arbitrary graph, and directed edges of the graph defining a potential con... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7024670 | Timed start-conditions for activities in workflow management systems The present invention relates to a method for processing of start conditions of activities within a process model processable by a Workflow Management System (WFMS); said process model comprises activities being nodes of an graph and directed control connectors defi... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6976257 | Context based execution prioritization in Workflow-Management-Systems The invention relates to a computerized method of managing workload within a Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) said WFMS comprising a process model, said process model comprising one or more activities being the nodes of an arbitrary graph, and directed edges of sai... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6968381 | Method for availability monitoring via a shared database A technology for indicating and determining the availability of a multitude of application servers. The method comprises for each of application server a first step of inserting into an availability database a notification period defining an upper time limit for a r... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6928477 | Availability and scalability in clustered application servers by transmitting expected loads of clients to load balancer The invention relates to a technology of workload balancing for improved availability within a multitude of applications-servers and a multitude of application-clients interconnected with said application-servers by a communication network. A proposed method compris... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6886007 | Taxonomy generation support for workflow management systems A method and means for automatically deriving from a process model of a workflow management system (WFMS) or a computer system with comparable functionality a set of underlying application services and providing a means to locate these application services by creati... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6832201 | Method and system for optimizing request shipping in workflow management systems A method for optimizing request shipping within a plurality of distributed networked computer systems holding a distributed application the usage of which realizes a process model underlying said application is proposed in which said process model comprises a busine... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6826560 | Subscription and notification with database technology The present invention teaches in general how to efficiently exploit active database technology and extensible database technology, i.e. triggers and user-defined functions for processing subscriptions. According to a first aspect of the present invention it is propo... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6826579 | Generating event-condition-action rules from process models A computerized method for automatically transforming the process model of a workflow-management-system into trigger-specifications executable within a trigger system. The process model comprises at least one source activity S, a target activity T and a control conne... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6820118 | Method and system for providing a linkage between systems management systems and applications An improved consistency is provided between systems management systems (SMS) and workflow management systems (WFMS) by a linkage between the two. A tight, integrative linkage is provided which is managed and maintained automatically by the application, particular by... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6772407 | Staging objects in workflow management systems The present invention relates to a device within and a method processed by a Workflow Management System (WFMS) making resources/objects accessible to activities of said WFMS processing these resources/objects. The Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) according the curr... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6725445 | System for minimizing notifications in workflow management system The present invention relates to a technique for improving the handling of notification items related to the execution of process model instances and/or activity instances within a Workflow Management System (WFMS) or a computer system with comparable functionality.... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6711606 | Availability in clustered application servers The present invention relates to a method of increasing the availability of an application executed by a computer system. More particularly, the invention relates to a method of increasing the availability of an application executed by one or more application client... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6681251 | Workload balancing in clustered application servers The invention relates to a method and means of workload balancing for a multitude of applications servers. The method comprises a first-step, wherein an application client sends an application request to a request queue of a dispatcher. In a second step t... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6633908 | Enabling application response measurement The present invention relates to the area of systems management teaching means and a method for determining and managing application performance. Application Response Measurement (ARM) assumes that the managed application is a self-instrumented component.... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6631354 | Deriving and running workload manager enclaves from workflows A method of providing workload-management in a Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) includes a first method of automatically determining at least one enclave-graph within a process-model of a Workflow-Management-System (WFM), and a second method of executing... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6615265 | Enabling planned outages of application servers A polite manner is used to discontinue availability of an application-server connected to at least one application-client. The connected-application-server determines what if any connected-application-clients have an open connection to the said conne... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6507844 | Method and system for minimizing network traffic A method for minimizing network traffic of distributed applications operating in a distributed environment in a networked computer system, comprising a plurality of workstations and a plurality of database management systems (DBMS) managing data in a set ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6487548 | Using database query technology for message subscriptions in messaging systems The present invention relates to messaging systems in general and message broker systems in specific. More particularly, the invention relates to means and a method for processing message publication requests and message subscription requests. The current... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6442572 | Method of and computer system for performing a transaction on a database A method of performing a transaction on a database. A number of transactions are available to be performed on said database. At least one of said transactions may only be performed if corresponding requirements are fulfilled, wherein the fulfillment of sa... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6415297 | Parallel database support for workflow management systems The invention suggests means for defining a portion of the system-repository of a Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) or a system with comparable functionality to be maintained in a parallel database by a Database-Management-System (DBMS). The WFMS comprise... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6308224 | Method of generating an implementation of a workflow process model in an object environment A method of extending the specifications of a process model within a workflow process environment is disclosed. The process model defines a process activity managed and executed by at least one computer system. The method of extending links the process mo... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6278977 | Deriving process models for workflow management systems from audit trails The present invention relates to the area of workflow management systems (WFMS). More particularly the invention is related to a methodology of automatically deriving and steadily improving a process model executed by the WFMS. The current invention drama... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6237020 | Task-oriented automatic distribution of software Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for automatically distributing software to a target computer system by obtaining a computer-system-description of the target-computer-system and at least one process-model of a workflow-managemen... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6122633 | Subscription within workflow management systems The present invention relates to the area of workflow management systems (WFMS). More particularly the inventions extends WFMS by subscription means. The subscription means operate on an audit trail stored within a database. The subscription means may enc... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6073111 | Container materialization/dematerialization for reduced dataload and improved data-coherency in workflow-management systems The present invention relates to the field of integration of applications that are executed by computer systems. In an additional focus, the current invention improves the integration of applications within workflow management systems. The basic approach ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6065009 | Events as activities in process models of workflow management systems WFMS execute a multitude of process models consisting of a network of potentially distributed activities. Within this structure is the implementation of events within WFMS like any other process activity. Thus events are implemented as event-activities, a... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6038538 | Generating process models from workflow logs A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and article of manufacture that constructs graph models from logs of past, unstructured executions of the given process. The graph model so produced conforms to the dependencies and past executions present in the ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6028997 | Method of generating an implementation of reusable parts from containers of a workflow process-model Method for automatically generating an implementation of input and output container reusable parts for a process model managed and executed by at least one computer system. The method of generating uses the specification of a process model extended by spe... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6011917 | Method and computer system for generating process management computer programs from process models A method is described for generating computer programs from process models, e.g., C++ computer programs. The generation of a computer program is based linearizing a process graph with respect to the sequence of activity execution, associating process mode... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6012094 | Method of stratified transaction processing The present invention relates to a method of computerized transaction of a collection of a multitude of potentially distributed transactions ensuring the atomicity of the collection of transactions. Besides offering atomic processing behavior the inventio... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6009405 | Ensuring atomicity for a collection of transactional work items in a workflow management system A computerized transaction execution with a workflow management systems (WFMS) executes a process model consisting of a network of potentially distributed activities including transactional work items. A computerized methodology defines, controls and proc... | 12/28/1999 |