Electronic Process-Driven Collaboration System
AssigneeAccenture Global Services Limited
InventorsDavid E. Trier, Michael A. Holzman, Louis Charles Nebolsky, Zsolt Benedek
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Abstract
A business process-driven collaboration system embeds collaboration resources and tools directly into existing business processes and applications. The system provides a service layer connected to an existing business process management (BPM) service to embed collaboration resources into the process, and in particular, into the user interface of the existing business applications. The system provides an interface layer providing rapid enhancement of the existing business applications.
Claims20
A business process-driven collaboration system, comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising:
- instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
- identify a current activity within a business process;
- obtain metadata associated with the current activity;
- and
- display a custom interface providing current activity-based information and resources based on an identification of the current activity and the metadata.
A business process-driven collaboration system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising:
- instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
- monitor a current activity of a business application;
- identify a change from the current activity to a new activity within the business application;
- obtain metadata from the business application related to the new activity;
- identify resources relevant to the new activity based on the metadata and an identification of the new activity;
- integrate a custom interface onto an interface of the business application;
- and
- display the identified resources through the custom interface.
A method for enabling business process-driven collaboration, comprising:
- monitoring, using a process-driven collaboration processor, a current activity of a business application;
- determining whether the current activity of the business application has changed to a new activity;
- and
- based on a determination that the current activity has changed to a new activity:
- obtaining metadata from the business application related to the new activity;
- identifying resources relevant to the new activity based on the metadata and an identification of the new activity;
- integrating a custom interface onto an interface of the business application;
- and
- displaying the identified resources through the custom interface.
A business process-driven collaboration system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising:
- an interface layer comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
- monitor a current activity of a business application;
- identify a change from the current activity to a new activity within the business application;
- request an identification of resources relevant to the new activity;
- integrate a custom interface onto an interface of the business application;
- and
- display identified resources relevant to the new activity through the custom interface;
- and
- an adapter layer comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
- identify, based on an identification of the new activity and metadata, the resources relevant to the new activity;
- and
- send the identified resources to the interface layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.