Capturing data from user selected portions of a business process and transferring captured data to user identified destinations

US8473453B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Oracle International Corporation · US

Inventors

• Ralf Mueller · Waldenbuch, DE
• Kireet M. Reddy · San Mateo, US
• Bhagat Nainani · Fremont, US
• William Charles Eidson · Palo Alto, US
• Edwin Khodabakchian · Palo Alto, US
• Weigun Mi · Santa Clara, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 27, 2009
• Grant date: Jun 25, 2013
• Expiry date: Dec 4, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S715/967
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A graphical user interface (GUI) displays a flow of activities of a business process, including any portion thereof from which capture of data is permitted. The GUI receives, in an operation, at least an indication of a business process portion from which data is to be captured (“sensor”), an identification of an endpoint to which captured data is to be transferred, and a type of the endpoint which identifies (through a mapping) a predetermined software. A sensor may be added any number of times (through a single GUI or though multiple GUIs) by repeatedly performing the operation. Also, a given sensor may be associated with multiple endpoints. Computer(s) executing the business process check whether or not a sensor is present, on execution of the business process portion, and if present, then execute the corresponding predetermined software(s) to transfer data from the sensor directly to the respective endpoint(s).