Context Control Mechanism For Data Executed in Workflows of Process, Factory-Floor, Environmental, Computer Aided Manufacturing-Based or Other Control System

The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for workflow editing. Such methods and apparatus permit, for example, user-defined and/or other tasks to be combined in any combination or combinations to specify a workflow. The tasks can be linked for direct, serial processing and/or for condit...

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Hauptverfasser:	DEREMER ROBERT A, BACHMAN GEORGE E, WEINRICH STEVEN M, GRUBB LORIN V, MCCOY, JR. WILLIAM H, WRIGHT JULIA, LEMERT PAUL W
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING COMPUTING CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL CONTROLLING COUNTING DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS PHYSICS REGULATING SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Zusammenfassung:	The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for workflow editing. Such methods and apparatus permit, for example, user-defined and/or other tasks to be combined in any combination or combinations to specify a workflow. The tasks can be linked for direct, serial processing and/or for conditional processing that includes branching and/or looping. The invention also improved methods and apparatus of workflow definition and processing with extensible actions. The invention provides, further, improved methods and apparatus for workflow definition and processing which utilize workflow variables for communication of data and control information among tasks within a workflow. The invention provides, still further, improved methods and apparatus of workflow definition and processing with enhanced messaging. The invention provides, still yet further, improved methods and apparatus for workflow definition and processing which permit definition of hierarchically enumerated data types and for definition of "plans" to collect, e.g., for storage, data such as the aforementioned hierarchical data types.