Workflow systems and methods for project management and information management
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- receiving a message from a form route manager at a first destination address, the message being associated with a workflow process;
receiving data from a user based on the message to produce a populated message; and
sending the populated message to the form route manager such that the form route manager sends the populated message to a first user at a second destination address in response to the populated message, the second destination address being from a plurality of destination addresses in a sequential route associated with the workflow process.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to workflow systems and methods. In one embodiment, the invention relates to integration of a calendar system with a workflow system where a calendar event can initiate a workflow by sending a message to a form route manager. The completion of a workflow or step in the workflow can result in sending a message to a calendar system to generate an event. In another embodiment, the invention relates to the integration of workflow with a project management system that includes project segments, which are processes that can be defined and controlled by workflow routes. The project management system sends a message to the workflow system to initiate workflow and the workflow system sends a message to the project management system, for example, at the completion of the workflow route. The relationship between the workflow routes can maintain the relationship between the project segments. If the relationships between project segments change, the relationship between the workflow routes changes without added effort.
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22 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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receiving a message from a form route manager at a first destination address, the message being associated with a workflow process; receiving data from a user based on the message to produce a populated message; and sending the populated message to the form route manager such that the form route manager sends the populated message to a first user at a second destination address in response to the populated message, the second destination address being from a plurality of destination addresses in a sequential route associated with the workflow process. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method, comprising:
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sending an access request for a Web page at a first destination address associated with a form route manager, the Web page being associated with a workflow process; receiving data associated with an empty field of the Web page to produce a populated Web page; and sending the populated Web page to the form route manager such that the form route manager sends a message containing a second destination address associated with the populated Web page to a first user at a first email address in response to the populated Web page, the first email address being from a plurality of email addresses in a sequential route associated with the workflow process. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An apparatus, comprising:
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a memory; and a processor, at least a portion of the processor including at least a portion of the memory, the processor configured to send a first message to a form route manager at a first destination address, the first message identifying a workflow process to be initiated from a plurality of workflow processes, the processor configured to receive a second message associated with the identified workflow process from the form route manager, the processor configured to update the second message to include a plurality of email addresses to produce a workflow message, the plurality of email addresses defining a sequential route associated with the identified workflow process, and the processor configured to send the workflow message to the form route manager at the first destination address, the form route manager configured to send the workflow message to each email address from the plurality of email addresses in the route in response to the workflow message. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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