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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Justin Whitaker, Atlanta, GA (US);
John Morris, Evanston, IL (US);
Justin Whitaker, Atlanta, GA (US);
John Morris, Evanston, IL (US);
Level N, LLC, Evanston, IL (US);
Abstract
Process studies are performed to determine improvements to processes, such as manufacturing or service related processes. One or more instances of a process may be captured (e.g., recorded) and annotated. A user is enabled to interact with a recording included in the process instance of a process being performed. The user is enabled to apply a process step tag selected from a plurality of process steps to a section of the recording. The user may be enabled to interact with the recording to apply an attribute value selected from a list of attribute values to the process instance. The user may be enabled to interact with the recording to apply discovery information to the process instance. Annotation information associated with the process instance is generated that includes the process step tag, any applied attribute values, and any applied discovery information.