Creating and customizing a workflow process from a document
US7657831B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 31, 2003 |
| Grant date | Feb 2, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 31, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus and method is provided for deconstructing or “reverse engineering” one or more documents into a workflow process by identifying various phases, steps, and questions that arise from the document. Using an editing tool, a user selects text portions of a document and specifies one or more workflow parameters associated with the text, such as a question that will be generated to elicit information corresponding to the selected text. The document is tagged and used to generate a data structure used to execute the workflow process at a later time. The data structure can be modified to change the workflow structure.
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