Patent ID: 11888944
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A method for determination and use of workflow characteristics with an integration cloud service or other computing environment, comprising:
providing a computer including one or more microprocessors, and an integration platform and integration cloud service running on the computer;
providing a repository of a plurality of workflows, wherein each workflow comprises actors associated with systems, connections and adaptors that the workflow integrates with to achieve particular objectives;
wherein each of the actors has characteristics, wherein a union of the characteristics of each actor in a workflow along with characteristics of the workflow itself collectively defines the characteristics of a workflow; and
wherein based upon determined characteristics of a requested workflow, one or more of the plurality of workflows at the repository are determined to meet at least some of the determined characteristics and are displayed as suggested workflows via a graphical user interface, each of the displayed one or more of the plurality of workflows comprising a connection to an application external to the integration platform, the application external to the integration platform being associated with a discovery criteria associated with a user.