Method and apparatus of adaptive integration activity management for business application integration

US7404185B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Liang Zhang · Nanjing, CN
• Yu Long · Gainesville, US
• Tian-Jy Chao · Bedford, US
• John Sayah · Sleepy Hollow, US
• Hung-Yang Chang · Scarsdale, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 2, 2003
• Grant date: Jul 22, 2008
• Expiry date: Apr 5, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An adaptive integration activity management framework for on demand business process integration provides a mechanism to enable easy integration of legacy and new applications. The framework minimizes the effort need to integrate a new application into an existing business process environment such that the new activity is a “plug-in” into an action manager by implementing a standard adaptation layer. Activity integration is implemented in the principle of “on-demand” because it is invoked as required, so the communication and collaboration between partners become much more flexible.