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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Lucius Gregory Meredith, Seattle, WA (US);
Amit Mital, Kirkland, WA (US);
Marc Levy, Woodinville, WA (US);
Brian Beckman, Newcastle, WA (US);
Anthony Andrews, Redmond, WA (US);
Bimal Mehta, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for executing a schedule in a workflow application is provided. The method comprises a hierarchical transaction commit rule allowing access to the data associated with an action in the schedule according to a transaction boundary and the state of the action. The invention further comprises selectively compensating at least one action according to a compensation parameter and at least one transaction boundary after abortion of another action. The invention further provides storing schedule state information to a storage medium based on a transaction boundary within the schedule. In addition, the invention provides for selectively obtaining at least a portion of the schedule state information from the storage medium, and selectively monitoring the schedule execution based on at least a portion of the schedule information obtained from the storage medium. Further provided, is a computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing the steps of the above methods.