Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Operations research or analysis
Reexamination Certificate
2005-01-05
2011-11-22
Boswell, Beth V (Department: 3623)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Operations research or analysis
C705S007110
Reexamination Certificate
active
08065176
ABSTRACT:
Provides workflow systems and methods. A workflow system having a matchmaking unit for receiving a task query from a workflow, and a plurality of task definer units, each providing a definition of a task. The matchmaking unit communicates with the task definer units to evaluate the task definitions against the task query based on at least one property associated with each task definition and provides at least one of the task definitions to the workflow as offers based on the evaluation.
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Facciorusso Christian
Field Simon
Hoffner Yigal
Alexanian Vazken
Boswell Beth V
Buchenhorner Michael J.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Jackson Ernest A
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