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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2001
Rocky Stewart, Danville, CA (US);
Pal Takacsi-nagy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Timo Metsaportti, Espoo, FI;
Sanjay Dalal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pascal Hoebanx, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rocky Stewart, Danville, CA (US);
Pal Takacsi-Nagy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Timo Metsaportti, Espoo, FI;
Sanjay Dalal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pascal Hoebanx, Santa Clara, CA (US);
BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An enterprise wide electronic commerce system allows trading partners to act as participants in a complex trading process. Participants communicate with one another by joining conversations that are hosted in a collaboration space and managed by a collaboration hub. In this manner, the enterprise workflow may have an effect on, or be affected by, local workflows. The invention provides a conversation management system for enterprise wide electronic collaboration. An embodiment of the invention includes a conversation manager for managing the flow of messages in a collaboration system, comprising a conversation initiation mechanism for initiating a conversation a participation registration mechanism for registering participants in a conversation, and a conversation repository for storing conversation management data.