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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2022
Aurea Software, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Kamyar J Sadeghi, Tiburon, CA (US);
Mohammad A. Ketabchi, San Jose, CA (US);
Ajay Khanna, Fremont, CA (US);
Steve Wilber, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Aurea Software, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A business process related computer software that displays a tabular view of a business process. Also, assigning types and/or attributes to worksteps of a business process and filtering the view of the business process based on the workstep types and/or workstep attributes. Also: (i) method for searching for worksteps based on a string pattern; (ii) a method for bulk update of worksteps satisfying search/filter criteria; (iii) a method for combining consecutive tasks into sub-tasks, or elevating sub-tasks to higher level tasks; (iv) a method for automatically setting the successor(s)/predecessor(s) workstep(s) as new worksteps are added or existing worksteps are removed; (v) a method for drilling down through a path in the process flow; (vi) a method for computing estimated duration for reaching a workstep along a path through the process flow; (vii) a method for identifying sequential and parallel worksteps and/or total duration through a timeline diagram; (viii) a method for printing process summary in tabular format; and/or (ix) methods of importing and exporting Microsoft projects.