Patent ID: 7382479
Filing Date: 2008-06-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A linking information making apparatus comprising: a service information obtaining section that obtains, via a network, information relating to respective services of performing a series of processing with respect to document data; a service display section that displays service symbol information expressing the respective services based on the information relating to the respective services obtained by the service information obtaining section; a logic information display section that displays logic symbol information expressing logic information that logically links the respective services, the logic information includes at least transition, branch, iteration, and termination of workflow processing; and a linking information making section that generates a workflow processing information that logically links the respective services by dragging and dropping selected service symbol information selected from among the service symbol information displayed on the service display section and selected logic symbol information selected from among the logic symbol information displayed on the logic information display section to a linking information display section, properties of the selected services symbol information and the selected logic symbol information being displayed on a property display section and set by a user, wherein the service display section, the logic information display section, the linking information display section, and the property display section are displayed on one screen, and wherein the logic symbol information displayed on the logic information display section includes user specified properties which include at least a number of branches to link the respective services and conditions of each branch.