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Context based execution prioritization in Workflow-Management-Systems

  • US 6,976,257 B2
  • Filed: 01/02/2001
  • Issued: 12/13/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computerized method of managing workload within a Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) said method being executable by said WFMS on at least one computer system, said WFMS comprising a process-model, said process-model comprising one or more activities being nodes of an arbitrary graph, and directed edges of said graph defining a potential control-flow within said process-model, said method comprising the steps of:

  • analyzing said process-model to determine if a priority-execution-specification is assigned to said one activity comprising at least one Boolean-predicate and a priority-level, andin an affirmative case, evaluating said Boolean-predicate using a variable-value not comprised in said process-model but said variable-value being comprised in a context of an instance of said process-model, and,if said Boolean-predicate evaluates to be TRUE, launching execution of said one activity in said activity'"'"'s execution-environment, said WFMS setting its own execution-priority for the WFMS-internal processing relating to said one activity with respect to the WFMS'"'"'s execution-environment to the execution-priority specified according to said priority-level.

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