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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2003
Yiming YE, White Plains, NY (US);
Haiyan Wang, Legal Representative, White Plains, NY (US);
Liang-jie Zhang, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
John Youssef Sayah, Sleepy Hollow, NY (US);
Jen-yao Chung, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Santhosh B. Kumaran, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Yiming Ye, White Plains, NY (US);
Haiyan Wang, legal representative, White Plains, NY (US);
Liang-Jie Zhang, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
John Youssef Sayah, Sleepy Hollow, NY (US);
Jen-Yao Chung, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Santhosh B. Kumaran, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for product life cycle management over an information network. More particularly, techniques are provided for decision support activation and management in accordance with a product life cycle management process such as a collaborative design process. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for managing at least one collaborative process performed in accordance with a first entity and at least a second entity, comprises the following steps/operations. Information associated with the at least one collaborative process is obtained. Based on at least a portion of the obtained information, an information structure (e.g., a context pyramid) representative of the collaborative process is dynamically maintained so as to assist at least one of the first entity and the second entity in managing at least a portion of the collaborative process.