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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2000
William Brewster Robinson, Foxboro, MA (US);
Benjamin Hurwitz, Acton, MA (US);
Jin Jing, Medfield, MA (US);
Himanshu Shekhar Sinha, Acton, MA (US);
William Brewster Robinson, Foxboro, MA (US);
Benjamin Hurwitz, Acton, MA (US);
Jin Jing, Medfield, MA (US);
Himanshu Shekhar Sinha, Acton, MA (US);
Verizon Laboratories Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Level 3 Communications, Inc., Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
A flexible interface and a method for employing the same are provided for interconnecting a client program with a workflow server running a workflow management system having workflow-type functionality. The interface includes a set of predefined protocol user interface pages including at least one control page. At least one first workflow platform-dependent object is provided for accessing the workflow functionality. At least one second workflow platform-independent object is provided for providing data to the first workflow platform-dependent object. At least one server program is provided that is callable by the control page to access the workflow functionality by invoking at least one of the first workflow platform-dependent object and the second workflow platform-independent object to promote data translation and exchange between the client program and the workflow management system.