Patent ID: 9692657
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: displaying, via a processor, a connected directed graphical representation of a process model that comprises a plurality of process nodes and interconnections between the process nodes of the process model; receiving a user selection of a subset of the process nodes of the displayed connected directed graphical representation of the process model; computing a process scope definition represented as at least one begin-end node pair, where the at least one begin-end node pair is usable to identify all selected nodes and interconnection path links that are reachable in a traversal from a begin node to an end node of each of the at least one begin-end node pair of the received user selection of the subset of the process nodes; and where computing the process scope definition comprises: where iteratively applying the two stage candidate node pair removal process that removes the candidate node pairs that violate the scope definition constraints from the set of candidate node pairs comprises: at a first stage of the two stage candidate node pair removal process, for each candidate node pair: at a second stage of the two stage candidate node pair removal process, for each candidate node pair: where the method further comprises: