Communication system for process-oriented acquisition, storage, transmission, and provision of data

2:

• The communication system according to claim 1,
• wherein each of the first and the at least one additional process step is assigned a position in a sequence of the at least one process, and
• wherein the at least one module is configured to transmit the data container to the additional data processing device of the process participant responsible for the at least one additional process step in a next position in the sequence of the at least one process.

4:

• The communication system according to claim 3,
• wherein at least one trigger condition is associated with the at least one process step, and
• wherein the at least one module is configured to automatically monitor an occurrence of the least one trigger condition and, upon the occurrence of the at least one trigger condition, transmit a status message with the unique identifier of the data container instance to the at least one server device or an additional server device.

5:

• The communication system according to claim 1,
• wherein the at least one module is configured to generate, prior to the transmission of the data container to the additional data processing device of the respective process participant responsible for the at least one additional process step, a copy of an instance of the data container, and store the copy on the data processing device of the process participant responsible for a completed respective process step.

6:

• The communication system according claim 1,
• wherein the at least one server device or an additional server device is configured to store the status message and an unique identifier of an instance of the data container transmitted thereto, and to transmit to the at least one data processing device of a querying process participant, in response to a corresponding query, at least the most recent status message stored for the identifier.

8:

• The communication system according to claim 17,
• wherein at least one step of the at least one process is associated with the addressing data of at least one additional possible respective responsible process participant, and
• wherein the at least one module of the data container is configured to automatically determine, prior to the transmission of the data container to the additional data processing device, in response to specific process data, the addressing data of the respective process participant actually responsible for the additional process step from a plurality of possible respective responsible process participants.

9:

• The communication system according to claim 1,
• wherein the data fields of the data container are defined in accordance with an XML-based markup language.

10:

• The communication system according to claim 1,
• wherein at least one data field of the data container is provided for at least one digital document, and the at least one digital document is transmitted as an attachment together with the data container and an instance of the data container.

11:

• The communication system according to claim 1,
• wherein at least one data field of the data container is required for the responsible process participant and the at least one data field is designated for at least one process step, and
• wherein the at least one module of the data container is configured to automatically check, prior to the transmission of the data container or a transmission of an instance of the data container to the additional data processing device, each designated data field that is required for the respective responsible process participant, and transmit the data container or the instance of the data container to the additional data processing device when each designated data field has been filled in.

12:

• The communication system according to claim 1,
• wherein at least one data field of the data container is designated for at least one process step and at least one of a read and write access is present for the at least one process step for the respective responsible process participant, and
• wherein the at least one module of the data container is configured to automatically grant the at least one of the read and write access designated for the at least one data field for the respective responsible process participant after one of the data container and data container instance has been opened.

13:

• The communication system according to claim 12,
• wherein at least one of the data fields of the data container is presented in a form-like arrangement.

14:

• The communication system according claim 12,
• wherein the at least one module of the data container is configured to automatically, after the data container or an instance of the data container has been opened by a process participant, at least one of display and hide a particular data field of the data container as a function of at least one of the process step, the process participant, and the process data.

15:

• The communication system according to 12,
• wherein at least one data field of the data container is associated with field labels in one or more languages, and a language to be displayed is selectable.

17:

• The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the process is least one of an administrative and business process.

19:

• The method according to claim 18,
• wherein each of the first and the at least one additional process step is assigned a position in a sequence of the at least one process, and
• wherein the data container is transmitted to the additional data processing device of the process participant responsible for the at least one additional process step in a next position in the sequence of the at least one process.