Work units for content processing

US9152932B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mohammad Reza Shafiee · Ridgefield, US
• Hongfang Li · Plano, US
• Wei Liu · Flower Mound, US
• Anurag Windlass Gupta · Atherton, US
• Ashutosh K. Sureka · Irving, US
• Satya S. Raju · Flower Mound, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2010
• Grant date: Oct 6, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2032

Classification

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

Abstract

A system may create work units, each work unit including at least one of an input port or output port, each work unit configured to modify data that is received via the input port. In addition, the system may compose a workflow by connecting an output port of a first of the work units to an input port of a second of the work units, receive a work order, select the workflow in response to the work order, decompose the workflow into constituent work units, instantiate tasks that correspond to the constituent work units, and execute a work unit process for each of the tasks.