International Business Machines Corporation

Ying Nan Zuo

Jian Wang

Jun Zhu

Jing Li

Ying Liu

Sheng Ye

Jing Min Xu

Liang-Jie Zhang

Tian-Jy Chao

Shun Xiang Yang

Yiming Ye

John Youssef Sayah

Hai Qi Liang

Haiyan Wang, Legal Representative

Hai Oi Liang

Provides methods for transforming a flowchart to an equivalent tree diagram, methods for transforming an equivalent tree diagram to a flowchart, methods for verifying reorganization of a flowchart, methods for editing a flowchart, methods for creating a flowchart and a flowchart editor. A flowchart includes one or more logic structures and one or more processing activities in said one or more logic structures. The method for transforming a flowchart to an equivalent tree diagram comprises: traversing said flowchart; transforming said one or more logic structures in said flowchart to one or more branching nodes in said tree diagram; and transforming one or more processing activities in said logic structures of said flowchart to one or more leaf nodes below corresponding branching nodes in said tree diagram. Further, edition of a flowchart and verification of reorganization of a flowchart are performed by utilizing an equivalent tree diagram.

Editing, creating, and verifying reorganization of flowchart, and transforming between flowchart and tree diagram

Hyperchain information management techniques are provided for use in applications such as on-demand business collaboration. In accordance with such techniques, a hyperchain annotation methodology is provided. Such an annotation methodology enables interaction between loosely-coupled business processes or interacting partners and business entities. Annotated information components and process components for collaboration may be expressed as links. Further, techniques for realizing an on-demand message exchange, embedded status/state information, flexible collaborative business message exchange patterns, and a collaborative directory are provided.

Methods and apparatus for information hyperchain management for on-demand business collaboration

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