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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2002
Stephen L. Burbeck, Cary, NC (US);
Toufic Boubez, Apex, NC (US);
James B. Casler, Apex, NC (US);
Stephen G. Graham, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Steven M. Miller, Cary, NC (US);
Stephen L. Burbeck, Cary, NC (US);
Toufic Boubez, Apex, NC (US);
James B. Casler, Apex, NC (US);
Stephen G. Graham, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Steven M. Miller, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing the processing of a document. A set of services registered for use in processing a document received from a client is identified in which registration information for each service within the set of services provides input requirements. A service from the set of registered services is selected to form a selected service by comparing a current state of the document with the input requirements for each service within the set of registered services. Execution of the selected service on the document is initiated, wherein a state transition occurs to a new state, which becomes the current state of the document processing system. The document processing system state is comprised of a collection of information fragments (tuples) which represent the set of documents currently being processed and the state of each document currently being processed. The selecting step and the initiating step are repeated until a response is returned to the client. In response to a request to register a new service, the set of registered services provided for processing of the document is dynamically altered to include the new service.
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