US 12,192,294 B2Granted

System and method for integrating external services into process workflow environments

AssigneeThe Toronto-Dominion Bank

InventorsJoseph Vincent Scarfutti, Christian Caberoy De La Peña, Aneesha Suresh Bulchandani

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Abstract

A system and method are provided for integrating external services into process workflow environments. The method can include subscribing to one or more topics in an external domain coupled to at least one external microservice to be notified of incoming messages, the topics in the external domain being mapped to topics in an internal domain coupled to a message broker for routing messages within the internal domain. The method can also include subscribing to the one or more topics in the internal domain to be notified of outgoing messages to the at least one external microservice and detecting an incoming message published to a first topic by a first external microservice. The method can also include sending the incoming message to the first topic of the internal domain, detecting an outgoing message from the first topic or a second topic of the internal domain, and publishing the outgoing message to the first external microservice or another external microservice via a corresponding topic in the external domain.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for integrating external services into process workflow environments, the system comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing computer executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
enable at least one external microservice to connect to an internal domain of an enterprise system via a software interface to permit messages to cross between a platform of the enterprise system that provides the internal domain, and an external domain separate and external to the platform, via the software interface, during execution of a process workflow;
detect an incoming message at the software interface, the incoming message being associated with execution of the process workflow executed within the internal domain of the enterprise system, the incoming message provided by a first of the at least one external microservice in the external domain;
determine a first internal topic of one or more internal topics in the internal domain to which the incoming message is to be routed from the external domain, wherein the first internal topic is determined from a notation in the incoming message identifying topic, subprocess, and record identifier for routing the incoming message;
and wherein each of the one or more internal topics corresponds to a service task in a state of the process workflow;
publish the incoming message to the first internal topic to notify subscribers of the first internal topic of the incoming message;
obtain a data object for the process workflow and determine one or more next tasks in the process workflow;
update the data object based on the one or more next tasks or a current task in the process workflow;
detect an outgoing message comprising the updated data object, the outgoing message comprising a corresponding service task to be performed by the first of the at least one external microservice, the outgoing message corresponding to a first external topic associated with the outgoing message and comprising the notation utilized by the first internal topic;
publish the outgoing message to the first external topic to enable the first of the at least one external microservice to obtain the outgoing message comprising the updated data object via the software interface by having subscribed to the first external topic;
and
instruct a workflow state change of the process workflow to be updated.

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A method of integrating external services into process workflow environments, the method comprising:

enabling at least one external microservice to connect to an internal domain of an enterprise system via a software interface to permit messages to cross between a platform of the enterprise system that provides the internal domain, and an external domain separate and external to the platform, via the software interface, during execution of a process workflow;
detecting an incoming message at the software interface, the incoming message being associated with execution of the process workflow executed within the internal domain of the enterprise system, the incoming message provided by a first of at least one external microservice in external domain;
determining a first internal topic of one or more internal topics in the internal domain to which the incoming message is to be routed from the external domain, wherein the first internal topic is determined from a notation in the incoming message identifying topic, subprocess, and record identifier for routing the incoming message;
and wherein each of the one or more internal topics corresponds to a service task in a state of the process workflow;
publishing the incoming message to the first internal topic to notify subscribers of the first internal topic of the incoming message;
obtaining a data object for the process workflow and determining one or more next tasks in the process workflow;
updating the data object based on the one or more next tasks or a current task in the process workflow;
detecting an outgoing message comprising the updated data object, the outgoing message comprising a corresponding service task to be performed by the first of the at least one external microservice, the outgoing message corresponding to a first external topic associated with the outgoing message and comprising the notation utilized by the first internal topic;
publishing the outgoing message to the first external topic to enable the first of the at least one external microservice to obtain the outgoing message comprising the updated data object via the software interface by having subscribed to the first external topic;
and
instructing a workflow state change of the process workflow to be updated.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium for integrating external services into process workflow environments, the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions for:

enabling at least one external microservice to connect to an internal domain of an enterprise system via a software interface to permit messages to cross between a platform of the enterprise system that provides the internal domain, and an external domain separate and external to the platform, via the software interface, during execution of a process workflow;
detecting an incoming message at the software interface, the incoming message being associated with execution of the process workflow executed within the internal domain of the enterprise system, the incoming message provided by a first of at least one external microservice in the external domain;
determining a first internal topic of one or more internal topics in the internal domain to which the incoming message is to be routed from the external domain, wherein the first internal topic is determined from a notation in the incoming message identifying topic, subprocess, and record identifier for routing the incoming message;
and wherein each of the one or more internal topics corresponds to a service task in a state of the process workflow;
publishing the incoming message to the first internal topic to notify subscribers of the first internal topic of the incoming message;
obtaining a data object for the process workflow and determining one or more next tasks in the process workflow;
updating the data object based on the one or more next tasks or a current task in the process workflow;
detecting an outgoing message comprising the updated data object, the outgoing message comprising a corresponding service task to be performed by the first of the at least one external microservice, the outgoing message corresponding to a first external topic associated with the outgoing message and comprising the notation utilized by the first internal topic;
publishing the outgoing message to the first external topic to enable the first of the at least one external microservice to obtain the outgoing message comprising the updated data object via the software interface by having subscribed to the first external topic;
and
instructing a workflow state change of the process workflow to be updated.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/348,634Filed 7 Jul 2023 · continuation
Priority: 7 Jan 2021
Published: US 2023/0353646 A12 Nov 2023
Granted: 7 Jan 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06Q 10/06316
Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations: sequencing of tasks or work
H04L 67/51
Network services: discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
G06F 16/25
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
G06F 16/9024
Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures: graphs; Linked lists

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Application17/248,060Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 7 Jan 2021
Application17/302,089Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Apr 2021
US 11,449,312 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 20 Sep 2022
US 2023/0353646 A1Pre-grant publication · published 2 Nov 2023
US 11,743,350 B2Parent of this continuation
Application17/302,089Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2022/0214862 A1Published application
US 2022/0217211 A1Published application
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