WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS

• US 20070288520A1
• Filed: 06/07/2007
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Patel, Rajesh, Hatanaka, Iwao, Traub, Kenneth, Horowitz, Marc, Popova, Marina
• Granted Patent: US 8,120,489 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

An RFID workflow module can use metadata to indicate configurable elements. An administration console can use the metadata to produce a configuration page for the RFID workflow module. The configuration page can allow a user to configure the RFID workflow module.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a RFID workflow module;

metadata associated with the RFID workflow module that indicates configurable elements; and

an administration console that uses the metadata to produce a configuration page for the RFID workflow module, the configuration page allowing a user to configure the RFID workflow module.

2. The system of claims 1, wherein the administration console is associated with an RFID edge server.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the workflow module is combined with other workflow modules to create a workflow.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the workflow nodule uses data from an RFID reader.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the RFID reader obtains RFID data from an RFID tag.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein some modules communicate synchronously and some asynchronously.

7. A computer readable medium with code to produce:

a RFID workflow module;

metadata associated with the RFID workflow module that indicates configurable elements; and

an administration console that uses the metadata to produce a configuration page for the RFID workflow module, the configuration page allowing a user to configure the RFID workflow module.

8. The computer readable medium of claims 7, wherein the administration console is associated with an RFID edge server.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the workflow module is combined with other workflow modules to create a workflow.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the workflow nodule uses data from an RFID reader.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the RFID reader obtains RFID data from an RFID tag.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein some modules communicate synchronously and some asynchronously.

13. A system comprising:

RFID workflow module receiving asynchronous messages from another RFID workflow module; and

An additional workflow module receiving synchronized procedures calls from a further RFID workflow module.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the workflow module is associated with metadata.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the metadata is sued to produce a configuration page of an admin console.

16. The system of claims 13, wherein workflow modules are combined to form a workflow.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the workflow nodule uses data from an RFID reader.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the RFID reader obtains RFID data from an RFID tag.

19. A computer readable medium with code to produce:

RFID workflow module receiving asynchronous messages from anther RFID workflow module; and

an additional workflow module receiving synchronized procedures calls from a further

RFID work flow module.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein the workflow module is associated with metadata.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 20, wherein the metadata is used to produce a configuration page of an admin console.

22. The computer readable medium of claims 19, wherein workflow modules are combined to from a workflow.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein the workflow nodule uses data from an RFID reader.