Patent ID: 6986138
Filing Date: 2006-01-10
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a plurality of actual execution workflows, each thereof, expressed by electronic data, for executing a flow of work, said actual execution workflows each including a plurality of nodes, comprising the steps of: a processor unit for generating at least one virtual workflow, expressed by electronic data, including a plurality of nodes, on the basis of selected nodes of said actual execution workflows, said selected nodes being selected by first users of said actual execution workflows and permitted to be disclosed to a second user of said virtual workflow; linking at least one process node of each of said actual execution workflows with a node of said virtual workflow, a process state of said process node thus linked being permitted to be disclosed to the second user of said virtual workflow; specifying a node of said virtual workflow; acquiring a node of said actual execution workflows linked with the node thus specified; and outputting a progress state of the acquired node as a progress state of the specified node of said virtual workflow.