Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Operations research or analysis
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-05
2010-11-09
Boswell, Beth V (Department: 3624)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Operations research or analysis
C705S002000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07831453
ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment, a business process meta-model is defined that represents a business process. The business process meta-model includes control flow elements pertaining to a control flow of the business process, and annotation elements providing details for the control flow elements.
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Das Manoj
Liang John
Lim Peter
Noik Emanuel Gerald
Smith Doug
Boswell Beth V
Campbell Stephenson LLP
Fleischer Mark A
Siebel Systems Inc.
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