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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2017
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rakesh Sinha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vishwas Nagaraja, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Danny Holzman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Arjun Dube, San Carlos, CA (US);
WMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A workflow is expressed as an arrangement of a set of executable tile. In some embodiments, the tiles include operations expressed in different programming languages. A tile can include a declarative specification of datatypes so that external agents, e.g., workflow services, can identify the datatypes and schemas required as arguments and produced as result; this simplifies the defining of a workflow, e.g., by a workflow coder. A tile can have zero, one, or plural user interfaces; selection of a user interface from plural user interfaces can be based on a user selection, on user roles, or on tile lifecycle stage. Workflow services can communicate with each other so that workflows can be distributed and shifted among processor nodes.