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Systems and methods for executing business processes over a network

a business process and network technology, applied in the field of collaborative business processes and transactions, can solve the problems of omission, inconsistency, ambiguity or misunderstanding, and the possibility of errors introduced into the final application due to omission, and achieve the effect of avoiding unnecessary delay in responding to business needs and avoiding errors

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-04-29
APTEAN INC
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"The present invention provides an environment for creating and executing collaborative business processes and transactions over a distributed computing-based network. The method allows a business process engineer to create a business process model using a computer network browser, without needing software coding or programming. The model can be easily accessed and used by a user, who can designate and select external software resources and web services. The method also allows for the dynamic construction of web pages based on the business process model, without errors or errors in syntax or scripting. The invention provides a flexible and dynamic solution for creating applications, based on the business processes and policies of an organization."

Problems solved by technology

Using the traditional approach, the possibility of errors introduced into the final application due to omissions, inconsistencies, ambiguities or misunderstandings was extremely high.
This can be difficult due to personnel change, cost, risk, and length of time since the application was developed, etc.
All of these factors may contribute to unnecessary delay in responding to business needs.

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[0432]An organization may have a legacy system that maintains details of all staff working for the organization. A process can be developed which uses a remote activity to provide a user with access to that information in conjunction with other data stored in the Visual Enterprise database.

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[0433]An organization may have a legacy system that maintains a General Ledger. Activities can be developed that access external components to post transactions to that system as part of the business processes developed to raise purchase orders, invoices and receipts.

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[0434]An organization may wish to conduct business-to-business transactions with a supplier to order stock. A process can be developed that allows the organization to place an order with the supplier, including any rules that might be associated with that order. For example, a rule might state that if the cost is above a defined limit then the supplier must seek authorization with the organization before proceeding with the order. Such authorization would be obtained by the automated initiation of an activity in the relevant user's Intray (as defined by the process workflow). If the user authorized the cost of the order then that authorization would be transported, again via SOAP, to the supplier whereupon the order could proceed (or be cancelled if authorization was not obtained). N.B. For this functionality to operate the remote system or component must support the SOAP infrastructure.

[0435]Process Views: Within any organization, different staff may have different views of exactly...

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Abstract

Systems and methods for executing business processes over a network. In an exemplary embodiment of a method of executing business processes via a computer network, the method comprises the steps of creating and installing software resources available over a network, browsing a database of software resources using a process model builder to identify software resource definitions, loading the software resource definitions identified by the process model builder to create a business process model comprising the software resources from the database of software resources, mapping inputs and outputs of the database of software resources to allow the business process model to be executed, saving the business process model on a storage medium accessible by the network, and initiating a collaborative business process by loading the business process model into a process interpreter and executing the software resources defined within the business process model.

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CO-PENDING APPLICATION[0001]This application claims benefit the failing date of Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 438,833 filed on Jan. 8, 2003, by Inventor Craig Sproule.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates generally to collaborative business processes and transactions. More specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods for the dynamic creation, generation, integration and execution of business processes and transactions over a network.BACKGROUND[0003]Enterprise software technology has matured to the point where today many hundreds of thousands of business processes are wholly or partially implemented in software and conducted via communications transacted across distributed networks. These communications networks may comprise elements of more than one electronic messaging system, to include the Internet, Extranets, Intranets, Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks and other suitable electronic messaging networks or systems known ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06Q10/00G06F9/45G06F9/44G06F17/30G06Q10/06G06Q10/10
CPCG06Q10/063G06Q10/10G06Q10/067
Inventor SPROULE, CRAIG
Owner APTEAN INC
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