METHOD FOR VISUALIZING A PROCESSING STATUS OF AN ORDER

• US 20090265195A1
• Filed: 12/02/2005
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP PPS Austria GmbH (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hiflex Software GmbH
• Inventors: Reichhart, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 8,055,524 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group

Abstract

A method for visualizing a processing status of an order is disclosed, wherein the order is issued by a management information system, and executed on an execution system, and wherein status reports associated with the order are transmitted from the execution system to the management information system in Job Definition Format, and incoming status reports are stored in the management information system.

In order to achieve simple handling and administration with a high degree of reliability, and simultaneously, with a high degree of flexibility with respect to changing requirements profiles, it is suggested that the processing status for each visualization is determined from the stored status reports on the fly through a parser.

Claims

1. A method for visualizing a processing status of an order, wherein the order is issued by a management information system, and executed on an execution system, and wherein status reports associated with the order are transmitted from the execution system to the management information system in Job Definition Format, and incoming status reports are stored in the management information system,

characterized in that,

the processing status for each visualization is determined from the stored status reports by a parser on the fly.

2. A method according to the preceding claim,

characterized in that,

the incoming status reports are divided into categories by a parser and organized and stored accordingly.

3. A method according to claim 1,

characterized in that,

the status reports are stored in a monitored area.

4. A method according to claim 1,

characterized in that,

a processing status is visualized through a designator defined specifically for it.

5. A method according to claim 1,

characterized in that,

a processing status is visualized by a color defined specifically for it.

6. A desktop application for visualizing a processing status of an order, wherein the order is issued by a management information system, and executed on an execution system,

characterized in that,

the processing status is visualized according to a method according to claim 1.