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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2012
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Gregory D. Harley, Manor, TX (US);

Sanjay F. Kottaram, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/067 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for managing orphan tokens in a business process system. The method may include a first business process system template being compared by computer to a second business process system template. The method may include predicting by computer at least one predicted orphan token that would be orphaned if the business process system is migrated to the second business process system template from the first business process system template. The method may include further generating by computer an orphan token policy file to manage orphan tokens, and modifying a migration file using the orphan token policy file.


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