Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Operations research or analysis
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-28
2011-12-13
Jasmin, Lynda (Department: 3624)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Operations research or analysis
C705S007210, C705S007120, C705S007110, C700S099000, C700S100000, C717S101000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08078487
ABSTRACT:
An interactive workflow schedule optimizer arranged to enable a user to reconfigure an instantiated workflow for a task comprising a plurality of actions having a predetermined dependency relationship to each other. The optimizer comprises means to input one or more user-specified constraint conditions into the workflow schedule optimizer; means to regenerate a workflow dependent on user specified condition from the instantiated workflow, the regenerated workflow satisfying said one or more user-specified constraint conditions. The optimizer optimises the global utilisation of the resources required to fulfil the user request by processing in parallel the resource requirements of each of said plurality of actions required by the regenerated workflow.
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Gharib Hamid
Giles Nick
Li Yang
Thompson Simon Giles
British Telecommunications plc
Jasmin Lynda
Miller Alan S
Nixon & Vanderhye PC
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