Patent ID: 8539441
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for deriving a composite activity that specifies a behavior of a first system that interacts with a second system, the method comprising: specifying, by a computing device, the composite activity containing a set of first simple activities in which each first simple activity is a basic activity specifying a message that is either sent from the first system to the second system or sent from the second system to the first system; replacing, by the computing device, each first simple activity that specifies a message sent from the second system to the first system by a second activity for the first system to receive the message followed by an unspecified activity that is to be specified by a user to define an internal action the first system is to take; and replacing, by the computing device, each first simple activity that specifies a message sent from the first system to the second system by an unspecified activity that is to be specified by a user to define an internal action the first system is to take followed by a second activity for the first system to send out the message.