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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2005
Dharma K. Shukla, Sammamish, WA (US);
Aditya G. Bhandarkar, Redmond, WA (US);
Akash J. Sagar, Redmond, WA (US);
Sergey Chub, Redmond, WA (US);
Mayank Mehta, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dennis Pilarinos, Redmond, WA (US);
Eli Hisdai, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abhay Vinayak Parasnis, Sammamish, WA (US);
Dharma K. Shukla, Sammamish, WA (US);
Aditya G. Bhandarkar, Redmond, WA (US);
Akash J. Sagar, Redmond, WA (US);
Sergey Chub, Redmond, WA (US);
Mayank Mehta, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dennis Pilarinos, Redmond, WA (US);
Eli Hisdai, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abhay Vinayak Parasnis, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user interface for building a componentized workflow model. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via the user interface. The metadata associated with each of the activities in the workflow is collected to create a persistent representation of the workflow. Users extend the workflow model by authoring custom activities.