The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2002
Reynaldo Gil, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dipayan Gangopadyay, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay Zhou, Fremont, CA (US);
Simeon Gordon, Fairburn, GA (US);
Sandeep Nayak, Fremont, CA (US);
Reynaldo Gil, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dipayan Gangopadyay, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay Zhou, Fremont, CA (US);
Simeon Gordon, Fairburn, GA (US);
Sandeep Nayak, Fremont, CA (US);
Servigistics, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for implementing a computer network system for managing a supply chain, wherein the computer network system comprising a plurality of application server computers. The method includes: identifying a business context for the supply chain; identifying a set of business policy rules for the business context, the set of business policy rules governing the relationship between two or more entities involved in the supply chain; creating at least one use-case description from the set of business policy rules; creating a plurality of executable code modules corresponding to the use-case description; specifying a plurality of name/value pair for modeling the set of business policy rules; provisioning the plurality of application server computers of the computer network system with the executable code modules; and provisioning a central directory database with the plurality of name/value pairs; whereby the computer network system, in response to one or more events in business transactions between at least two entities involved in the supply chain, is operable to dynamically deliver at least one name/value pair from the central directory database and to execute at least one code module.