Patent ID: 7024670
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computerized method for processing start-conditions processed by a computer system acting as a Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) or a computer system with comparable functionality, said WFMS comprising at least one process-model, said process-model modeling a process comprising one or more process-activities being nodes of an arbitrary graph and directed control-connectors of said graph defining a potential control flow within said process-model; said method being operative to process start-conditions in one of at least a first mode and a second mode the method comprising the steps of: in the first mode of processing start-conditions, determining if a target-activity representing a work item of said process may be started by evaluating a truth-value of a start-condition once truth-values of all incoming control-connectors of said target-activity have been determined; and said method further comprising a timed-evaluation-step, said timed-evaluation step comprising the steps of: the timed-evaluation-step is repeated until all control-connectors of the target activity have been evaluated, and wherein the method implemented on the computer system is by default operative in the first mode, and the second mode is automatically selected when the truth-value of the first incoming control-connector has been determined to be TRUE.