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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2000
Gregory Lucius Meredith, Seattle, WA (US);
Amit Mital, Kirkland, WA (US);
Anthony Andrews, Redmond, WA (US);
Arunchallam S. Sivakumar, Issaquah, WA (US);
Donald J. Mccrady, Redmond, WA (US);
Patrick J. Helland, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bimal Mehta, Redmond, WA (US);
Gregory Lucius Meredith, Seattle, WA (US);
Amit Mital, Kirkland, WA (US);
Anthony Andrews, Redmond, WA (US);
Arunchallam S. Sivakumar, Issaquah, WA (US);
Donald J. McCrady, Redmond, WA (US);
Patrick J. Helland, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bimal Mehta, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for executing a schedule in a workflow application is provided. The method includes selectively storing a schedule state to a storage medium based on a latency attribute associated with the schedule. Also provided is a method of executing a workflow application comprising long running transactions. This method includes selectively storing a schedule state to a storage medium based on a latency attribute associated with the schedule, and selectively compensating certain actions within the schedule according to a compensation parameter associated with an action, based on failure or abortion of another action within the schedule. In addition, there is provided a method of executing a schedule comprising selectively compensating certain actions or transactions within the schedule according to a compensation parameter associated with an action or transaction, based on failure or abortion of another action or transaction within the schedule.