Process Model Transition Visualization

• US 20140114629A1
• Filed: 12/31/2012
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lexmark International Technology Sarl (Ninestar Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lexmark International Incorporated (Ninestar Corporation)
• Inventors: Jojgov, Georgi, van den Brand, Peter
• Application Number:
  US13/732,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20140114629A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/6
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/00 Computer-aided design [CAD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method of visually representing a process that includes creating a case representation for each case in the process, representing the process as a workflow having states and transitions, displaying a progression of each case representation from one state to a next state at a speed representing an amount of time for the each case to reach the next state from the one state; and varying an appearance of the transition depending on a performance metric at a time interval.

Claims

1. A method of visually representing a process, comprising:

creating a case representation;

representing the process as a workflow having states and transitions;

displaying a progression of the case representation from one state to a next state at a speed representing an amount of time for the case to reach the next state from the one state; and

varying an appearance of the transitions depending upon a performance metric at a time interval.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the time interval is a time between two frames.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the time interval is a fixed time.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the fixed time is based upon a time period from which the visual representation of the process is based.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the time period is determined from a raw set of data.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising varying an appearance of at least one of the states depending upon the performance metric.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the performance metric is a number of case representations in the at least one state at the time interval.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the performance metric is a number of case representations progressing from the one state to the next state at the time interval.

9. A method of visually representing a process, comprising:

creating a case representation for each case in the process;

representing the process as a workflow having states and a transition;

displaying a progression of each case representation from one state to a next state at a speed representing an amount of time for the each case to reach the next state from the one state; and

varying an appearance of the transition depending upon one or more transaction-related data at a time interval.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the transaction-related data is a number of case representations meeting a criteria and progressing from the one state to the next state at a time interval.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the progression of the each case representation corresponds to a time period.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the time period is set by a user.

13. A method of visually representing a process, comprising:

creating a case representation for each case in the process;

representing the process as a workflow having states and a transition;

displaying a progression of each case representation from one state to a next state at a speed representing an amount of time for the each case to reach the next state from the one state; and

displaying information relating to at least one of a number of case representations progressing from the one state to the next state and a number of case representations in at least one state at a time interval,

wherein the progression of the each case representation from the one state to the next state corresponds to a time period.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the displayed information is presented by varying an appearance of the transition depending upon a number of case representations progressing from the one state to the next state at the time interval.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the displayed information is presented by varying an appearance of at least one of the states depending upon the number of case representations in the at least one state at the time interval.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the displayed information is text associated with the number of cases progressing from the one state to the next state at the time interval.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the displayed information is text associated with the number of cases at the at least one state at the time interval.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the displaying the progression is an animation of the progression of each case representation from the one state to the next state.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein a frame of the animation corresponds to a time moment in the time period.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein a frame of the animation displays a position of the each case representation in the state during a time moment in the time period.