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Patent No.:

US 6308161 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001

Filed:

Mar. 20, 1998

System and method for business process space definition

Applicant:
Inventors:

Edward Barnes Boden, Vestal, NY (US);

Dennis Gregory Geiser, Cary, NC (US);

Frank Vincent Paxhia, Endicott, NY (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorney:

Shelley M Beckstrand

Primary Examiner:

Eric W Stamber

Assistant Examiner:

Raquel Alvarez

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/760 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/760 ;
Abstract

A method and system for representing business processes such as in a workflow model. Each of a plurality of processes is defined as a 3-tuple including a noun, a verb and an attribute, and a selected process is displayed as a point in navigation space. In this manner, business processes are classified and organized in terms of a 3-dimensional process navigation space facilitating process identification, decomposition and definition by traversal of this space.

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Boden, Edward. (2001). System and method for business process space definition (U.S. Patent No. 6308161). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6308161

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