Flexible attribute management in workflow processing systems

US8468496B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC · US

Inventors

• Janeen E. Jahn · Lafayette, US
• Simon Jones · Hamilton, BM
• Linda S. Liebelt · Boulder, US
• Kyle P. Manning · Lafayette, US
• Dwight Ross Palmer · Longmont, US
• Eric M. Sigler · Boulder, US
• Matthew M. Walli · Longmont, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 7, 2006
• Grant date: Jun 18, 2013
• Expiry date: Mar 20, 2030

Classification

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

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus for improved ease and flexibility in defining attribute values for jobs in a workflow processing system. The job attributes are presented to a user grouped or organized by their relationship to various elements of the workflow model used to process the job type. Further, default values for job attributes may be flexibly defined based on elements of the workflow model that utilize the job attribute and/or based on dynamic computations of functions involving the various job attributes and other parameters.