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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Euthimios Panagos, New Providence, NJ (US);
Michael Rabinovich, Gillette, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/700 ;
Abstract
A work flow management system (WFMS) can execute one or more instances of a workflow process. The execution of each workflow process is comprised of the execution of component activities. More particularly, dynamically predicting deadlines of a workflow process, whether a workflow process will escalate and whether it is beneficial to preemptively escalate a workflow process.