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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2008
Daja Phillips, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Max E. Mcfarland, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrea Mariotti, San Carlos, CA (US);
Haixia Yu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael G. E. Griffin, Redwood City, CA (US);
Bradley J. Rhodes, Alameda, CA (US);
Sergey Chemishkian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Edward L Schwartz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Patty Case, Saratoga, CA (US);
Stephen R. Savitzky, San Jose, CA (US);
Daja Phillips, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Max E. McFarland, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrea Mariotti, San Carlos, CA (US);
Haixia Yu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael G. E. Griffin, Redwood City, CA (US);
Bradley J. Rhodes, Alameda, CA (US);
Sergey Chemishkian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Edward L Schwartz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Patty Case, Saratoga, CA (US);
Stephen R. Savitzky, San Jose, CA (US);
Ricoh Co., Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A distributed workflow-enabled system includes: a workflow-enabled provider and a workflow-enabled client communicatively coupled by a network. The workflow-enabled provider and the workflow-enabled client include a workflow unit. The workflow unit allows the workflow-enabled provider and the workflow-enabled client to communicate, distribute processes and present a user interfaces by providing a communication manager, a process control module and a user interface module. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including a method for communication, a method for processing by a process control module, a method for creating and presenting the user interface and a method for retrieving processes executable by the process control module.