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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2005
Ralf Mueller, Baden-Württemberg, DE;
Kireet M. Reddy, San Mateo, CA (US);
Bhagat V. Nainani, Fremont, CA (US);
William Eidson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Edwin Khodabakchian, Atherton, CA (US);
Weigun MI, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ralf Mueller, Baden-Württemberg, DE;
Kireet M. Reddy, San Mateo, CA (US);
Bhagat V. Nainani, Fremont, CA (US);
William Eidson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Edwin Khodabakchian, Atherton, CA (US);
Weigun Mi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphical user interface (GUI) displays a flow of activities of a business process, including any portion thereof from which capture of data is permitted. The GUI receives, in an operation, at least an indication of a business process portion from which data is to be captured ('sensor'), an identification of an endpoint to which captured data is to be transferred, and a type of the endpoint which identifies (through a mapping) a predetermined software. A sensor may be added any number of times (through a single GUI or though multiple GUIs) by repeatedly performing the operation. Also, a given sensor may be associated with multiple endpoints. Computer(s) executing the business process check whether or not a sensor is present, on execution of the business process portion, and if present, then execute the corresponding predetermined software(s) to transfer data from the sensor directly to the respective endpoint(s).