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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2010
David G. Green, Kirkland, WA (US);
Bimal K. Mehta, Sammamish, WA (US);
Satish R. Thatte, Redmond, WA (US);
Dharma K. Shukla, Sammamish, WA (US);
Abhay Vinayak Parasnis, Sammamish, WA (US);
David G. Green, Kirkland, WA (US);
Bimal K. Mehta, Sammamish, WA (US);
Satish R. Thatte, Redmond, WA (US);
Dharma K. Shukla, Sammamish, WA (US);
Abhay Vinayak Parasnis, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Designing and executing a workflow having flow-based and constraint-based regions. A user selects one or more activities to be part of a constraint-based region. Each constraint-based region has a constraint associated therewith. The workflow is executed by executing the flow-based region and the constraint-based region. The flow-based region executes sequentially. The constraint is evaluated, and the constraint-based region executes responsive to the evaluated constraint.