Modeling of business process data

US8433602B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siebel Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Manoj Das · Fremont, US
• John Liang · Palo Alto, US
• Peter Lim · Hillsborough, US
• Emanuel Gerald Noik · Santa Clara, US
• Doug Smith · Orinda, US
• Rahim Yaseen · Redwood City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 5, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 30, 2013
• Expiry date: Nov 5, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/067
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In one embodiment, a business process meta-model is defined that represents a business process. The business process meta-model includes control flow elements pertaining to a control flow of the business process, and annotation elements providing details for the control flow elements.