Creating and customizing a workflow process from a document

Details Creating and customizing a workflow process from a document Creating and customizing a workflow process from a document

2003-07-31

2010-02-02

Desai, Rachna S (Department: 2176)

Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator i

Presentation processing of document

Structured document

C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

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07657831

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method is provided for deconstructing or “reverse engineering” one or more documents into a workflow process by identifying various phases, steps, and questions that arise from the document. Using an editing tool, a user selects text portions of a document and specifies one or more workflow parameters associated with the text, such as a question that will be generated to elicit information corresponding to the selected text. The document is tagged and used to generate a data structure used to execute the workflow process at a later time. The data structure can be modified to change the workflow structure.

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