METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MODEL CONTENT STATE AND ACCESS CONTROL IN BACKEND-SYSTEMS AND BUSINESS PROCESSES

• US 20100223570A1
• Filed: 02/28/2009
• Published: 09/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gerstl, Peter, Neumann, Frank
• Granted Patent: US 9,135,584 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method to model and change the state of associated content objects from one or more workflow and task management systems is provided. The method includes overlaying a business process model associated with a graphical content state overlay. A state of the content objects changes accordingly when the business process instance proceeds. Access rights are forwarded from human tasks in a business process to an associated content object. Concurrent access rights that are forwarded from multiple systems are handled. The graphical content state overlay areas include an active state overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance is active, an assessed overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance is assessed, an approval/rejected overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance has received one of an approval decision and a rejection decision, and a state archived overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance has been archived.

Claims

1. A method to model and change the state of associated content objects from one or more workflow and task management systems, the method comprising:

overlaying a business process model associated with a graphical content state overlay;

changing the state of the content objects accordingly when the business process instance proceeds;

forwarding access rights from human tasks in a business process to an associated content object; and

handling concurrent access rights forwarded from multiple systems,

wherein the graphical content state overlay areas comprise;

an active state overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance is active;

an assessed overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance is assessed;

an approval/rejected overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance has received one of an approval decision and a rejection decision, and a

state archived overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance has been archived.