Patent ID: 8386993
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A workflow system comprising: a workflow storage that stores a first workflow and a second workflow for managing business processes, wherein the first workflow is different from the second workflow, the first workflow comprising a first plurality of tasks associated with persons in charge of the first plurality of tasks, respectively, and the second workflow comprising a second plurality of tasks associated with persons in charge of the second plurality of tasks, respectively, wherein the persons in charge of the first plurality of tasks are different from the persons in charge of the second plurality of tasks; a condition storage that stores a task extracting condition, the task extracting condition identifying a task and an attribute value of the task; and a central processing unit (CPU) that functions as: a condition monitoring unit monitors execution of the first plurality of tasks of the first workflow and the second plurality of tasks of the second workflow, determines that one of a first attribute of a first task among the first plurality of tasks of the monitored first workflow and a second attribute of a second task among the second plurality of tasks of the monitored second workflow satisfies the attribute value of the task stored by the condition storage, and determines that the first task and the second task correspond to the task stored by the condition storage; a task extracting unit that extracts the first task, the second task, a first person in charge associated with the first task, and a second person in charge associated with the second task from the workflow storage, based on a result of the condition monitoring unit; a site creation unit that creates a conference site of which an access authority is given to the first person in charge and the second person in charge extracted by the task extracting unit; and an access controller that controls access to the conference site created by the site creation unit in accordance with the access authority.