Model driven collaborative business application development environment and collaborative applications developed therewith

• US 20030097286A1
• Filed: 10/18/2002
• Published: 05/22/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vitria Technology Incorporated (Innovation Technology Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Vitria Technology Incorporated (Innovation Technology Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Skeen, Marion Dale
• Application Number:
  US10/273,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20030097286A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

A model driven environment for creating collaborative applications for executing collaborative business processes. Interrelated models are configured to define the application. A business process model defines steps and rules of the business process. A vocabulary model defines document flows corresponding to the business process. A service model exposes external events of the business process to other parties in the form of specifications. Trading partners can subscribe to the specifications to collaborate.

Claims

1. A model driven environment for executing collaborative business applications through which participants can execute business processes, said system comprising:

a business process module operative to execute business process models representing collaborative business processes;

a vocabulary module including a vocabulary model defining common terms and transformations to be used in exchanging documents to be used for transactions; and

a services module including a services model representing external events corresponding to states of the business process models executed by said business process model execution module in conformance with said vocabulary models and corresponding transformations.

2. An environment as recited in claim 1, wherein the participants comprise trading partners.

3. An environment as recited in claim 1, wherein the participants comprise applications.

4. An environment as recited in claim 1, wherein the business process models are in a graphical form

5. An environment as recited in claim 1, further comprising a graphical model development module.

6. An environment as recited in claim 5, further comprising at least one predefined business process model specific to an industry.

7. An environment as recited in claim 1, further comprising a document model representing a flow of documents between trading partners based on said business process model and said vocabulary models.

8. An environment as recited in claim 1, wherein said services model presses the external events as specifications.

9. An executable business collaboration application for executing collaborative business process models, said application comprising

a business process model defining steps and rules of a business process in the form of plural states and transitions between the states;

a vocabulary model including definitions of common terms and transformations to be used in exchanging documents; and

a services model defining external events corresponding to states of business process models and corresponding documents.