Patent ID: 8745628
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G05B,G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for managing execution of processes on a data processing system, the data processing system comprising one or more process instances that are each an execution of a corresponding process, each process instance comprising multiple activity instances, the method comprising the steps of: determining one or more business impacts for the one or more process instances, the multiple activity instances, or both the one or more process instances and the multiple activity instances; weighting the one or more business impacts to create one or more weighted business impacts, wherein said weighting comprises determining a level of relative preference to each of the one or more business impacts based on (i) information derived from an organization managing the one or more process instances and the multiple activity instances that identifies (a) one or more types of requests to be preferentially weighted over other types of requests and (b) one or more customers to be preferentially weighted over other customers, and (ii) information derived from a database comprising one or more past executions of the one or more process instances and/or activity instances and corresponding business impacts associated therewith; managing order of execution of the multiple activity instances by allocating resources to the multiple activity instances in an environment with insufficient resources to simultaneously perform all of the multiple activity instances in order to achieve an objective defined in terms of the one or more weighted business impacts, and wherein said management step is performed by one or more hardware devices; receiving one or more requests for execution of one or more processes; for a given one of the one or more requests, performing one or more of assigning, updating, and aggregating of one or more first business impacts associated with the given request to create one or more second business impacts associated with the given request, the given request for execution of a given process; modifying a given request of the one or more requests to create a modified request, the modified request for execution of the given process or another process; and wherein the step of managing further comprises the step of managing unmodified requests and any modified requests.