Processing system using metadata for administering a business transaction

US9104985B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Travis M. Drucker · Rochester, US
• Joel C. Dubbels · Eyota, US
• William C. Rapp · Rochester, US
• Richard J. Stevens · Vergennes, US
• David A. Wall · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 17, 2011
• Grant date: Aug 11, 2015
• Expiry date: Feb 11, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Administering a business transaction, including: receiving a request for a business transaction, the request containing data to be processed by the business transaction and metadata describing the data and the request; creating, in dependence upon classification rules, the data to be processed by the business transaction, and the metadata describing the data and the request, a business object representing the business transaction; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and attributes of the business object, one or more workflows to process the data to be processed by the business transaction; processing the data to be processed by the business transaction with the workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant data; and routing, in dependence upon content routing rules and the attributes of the resultant business object, the resultant data to a destination.