Displaying and analyzing document flows
US7657541B2 · kind B2 · utility
Assignee
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 20, 2004 |
| Grant date | Feb 2, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 28, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/10
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and a method for displaying and analyzing a business process based on the document flow of that business process. The graphical user interface may graphically display a set of documents relevant to a business process and the linkages between the set of documents as a document chain on a computer display to facilitate analysis of a business process. The linkages may represent change processes or binary relationships. A subset of documents may be filtered from the group of documents. The filtering may be performed based on a type of linkage. The subset of documents may be all successors of a starting document, all predecessors of the starting document, all successors of a root document of the starting document, or all successors and predecessors of the starting document. The graphical user interface may further graphically display items within documents and the linkages between the items. The graphical user interface may further display details about the selected document.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.