Inversion of control framework for multiple behaviors of a process

• US 10,628,132 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2017
• Issued: 04/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Alabes, Tomas, Alurralde Iturri, Fernando, Laplume, Nicolas
• Primary Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Ziaul A
• Application Number:
  US15/684,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20180074796A1
• Time in Patent Office: 972 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Implementations generally relate to providing process modes. In some implementations, a method includes receiving view descriptors at a client device, where the view descriptors define how a process model is rendered and define how the process model behaves when rendered. The method further includes storing the view descriptors at the client device. The method further includes receiving, at the client device, a process mode selection from a user, where the process mode selection selects a process mode of a plurality of process modes, and where the selected process mode is associated with a set of the view descriptors. The method further includes retrieving the process model from a server. The method further includes applying the process model at the client device based on the set of the view descriptors associated with the selected process mode.

Claims

1. A method for providing process modes, the method comprising:

receiving, from a server, view descriptors at a client device, wherein the view descriptors include rendering descriptors and behavior descriptors associated with a business process model having a plurality of process elements, and wherein the rendering descriptors define how the business process model is rendered and the behavior descriptors that define how the business process model behaves when rendered;

storing the view descriptors at the client device;

associating the business process model with a plurality of process modes having different functions that present different faces or views of the business process model depending on a process mode selection from the plurality of process modes;

receiving, at the client device, the process mode selection from a user, wherein the process mode selection selects a process mode from the plurality of process modes, wherein the selected process mode is associated with a particular set of the view descriptors, wherein the process modes include one or more of a process designer mode, a process read-only mode, and a process play mode, and wherein each one of the view descriptors from the particular set of the view descriptors is associated with a respective processing element of the business process model;

retrieving the business process model from a server; and

applying the business process model at the client device based on the particular set of the view descriptors associated with the selected process mode.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the process modes of the business process model are defined by combinations of rendering descriptors and behavior descriptors.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the view descriptors include a plurality of sets of the view descriptors, and wherein each set of the view descriptors is associated with a combination of rendering descriptors and behavior descriptors.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying program instructions thereon, the instructions when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a server, view descriptors at a client device, wherein the view descriptors include rendering descriptors and behavior descriptors associated with a business process model having a plurality of process elements, and wherein the rendering descriptors define how the business process model is rendered and the behavior descriptors that define how the business process model behaves when rendered;

storing the view descriptors at the client device;

associating the business process model with a plurality of process modes having different functions that present different faces or views of the business process model depending on a process mode selection from the plurality of process modes;

receiving, at the client device, the process mode selection from a user, wherein the process mode selection selects a process mode from the plurality of process modes, wherein the selected process mode is associated with a particular set of the view descriptors, wherein the process modes include one or more of a process designer mode, a process read-only mode, and a process play mode, and wherein each one of the view descriptors from the particular set of the view descriptors is associated with a respective processing element of the business process model;

retrieving the business process model from a server; and

applying the business process model at the client device based on the particular set of the view descriptors associated with the selected process mode.

5. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein the process modes of the business process model are defined by combinations of rendering descriptors and behavior descriptors.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein the view descriptors include a plurality of sets of the view descriptors, and wherein each set of the view descriptors is associated with a combination of rendering descriptors and behavior descriptors.

7. An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

logic encoded in one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to perform operations comprising;

receiving, from a server, view descriptors at a client device, wherein the view descriptors include rendering descriptors and behavior descriptors associated with a business process model having a plurality of process elements, and wherein the rendering descriptors define how the business process model is rendered and the behavior descriptors that define how the business process model behaves when rendered;

storing the view descriptors at the client device;

associating the business process model with a plurality of process modes having different functions that present different faces or views of the business process model depending on a process mode selection from the plurality of process modes;

receiving, at the client device, the process mode selection from a user, wherein the process mode selection selects a process mode from the plurality of process modes, wherein the selected process mode is associated with a particular set of the view descriptors, wherein the process modes include one or more of a process designer mode, a process read-only mode, and a process play mode, and wherein each one of the view descriptors from the particular set of the view descriptors is associated with a respective processing element of the business process model;

retrieving the business process model from a server; and

applying the business process model at the client device based on the particular set of the view descriptors associated with the selected process mode.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the process modes of the business process model are defined by combinations of rendering descriptors and behavior descriptors.