Patent ID: 9262735
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for identifying conditional actions in a business process comprising: extracting text fragments from input documents; determining a plurality of pairs of the text fragments that respectively include text fragments that are similar according to a pre-defined similarity standard; for each pair of at least a subset of the pairs, determining at least one difference between the text fragments of the corresponding pair; merging, by at least one hardware processor, at least two particular pairs of the subset of the pairs in response to determining that the particular pairs have at least one of the determined differences in common; and outputting the merged particular pairs to indicate the conditional actions in the business process; wherein, using the merged particular pairs, conditions and actions of the business process are visually associated to enable a user to construct or modify a business model or design or modify an automated business process.