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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
May. 02, 2007
Hiroyasu Ohsaki, Sagamihara, JP;
Hiroyasu Ohsaki, Sagamihara, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A workflow system is provided in which one person in charge efficiently processes each activity assigned to successive nodes. When a client request management program execution unitof a workflow serverreceives a request to terminate processing for a node from a user's computer terminal for operation, a definition for the node is referred to by a project management program execution unit. If processing of a process management program execution unitis completed within a consecutive processing standby time tdefined for the node, and it is determined that a next node can be processed by the user, a client request management program execution unitrequests a computer terminal for operationto start processing of a next node.