Processing a bill of materials

US8781922B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mohammad Reza Shafiee · Ridgefield, US
• Satya S. Raju · Flower Mound, US
• Rajesh Chaganti · Flower Mound, US
• Ashutosh K. Sureka · Irving, US
• Shuchi Patel · Frisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 15, 2014
• Expiry date: Sep 19, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0875
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system may receive an input specification, compose a workflow by connecting an output port of a first one of a plurality of work units to an input port of a second one of the work units, receive a work order associated with the workflow, decompose the workflow into constituent work units upon receipt of the work order, instantiate tasks that correspond to the work units, generate a bill of materials that lists input and output files associated with the tasks based on the tasks and the input specification, and update fields of the bill of materials, the fields indicating states of the input and output files.