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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2006
John Ousterhout, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anders Wallgren, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sandeep Tamhankar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Scott Stanton, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Usman Muzaffar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Ousterhout, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anders Wallgren, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sandeep Tamhankar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Scott Stanton, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Usman Muzaffar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Electric Cloud, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-tiered process automation system employing a novel property attachment mechanism is described. For example, a computer-implemented method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: providing one or more project objects, procedure objects, and step objects; generating attachment data attaching a plurality of properties to the project objects, procedure objects, and step objects, each of the properties having a value associated therewith, wherein at least some of the properties are generated and attached to the project objects, procedure objects, and step objects at runtime, during execution of the project objects, procedure objects, and step objects, respectively; storing the attached properties with the associated values and attachment data; receiving a request to execute one or more of the objects; interpreting the attachment data to identify the properties attached to each of the one or more objects; and executing the one or more of the objects within the process automation system using the values associated with the one or more properties.