Patent ID: 6415297
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: G05B,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A Workflow-Management-System (WFMS) for supporting maintenance of a system-repository associated with the WFMS in a plurality of parallel databases by a Database-Management-System (DBMS), the WFMS comprising one or more WFMS instances executed on one or more computer systems coupled to the DBMS, the WFMS comprising:at least one table comprising the system-repository, each table including a sequence of attributes and a plurality of records each with a sequence of attribute-values for the sequence of attributes; a WFMS definition-means for specifying at least one attribute as a partitioning-key for each table to enable partitioning of each table into the plurality of parallel databases on the basis of a particular partitioning-key and to enable the DBMS to maintain and provide parallel database access to records associated with the particular partitioning-key in a parallel database, wherein parallel and concurrent access by the WFMS instances to the system repository is enabled.