Patent ID: 8984046
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing a given process in a data-centric manner in a client/server environment comprising at least one client and at least one server, comprising the steps of: obtaining from the client at the server at least one request associated with the given process; in response to the request obtained from the client, the server dynamically generating a business entity that is used to formulate a response message in response to the at least one request, wherein the generated business entity is a data entity having a data model and a lifecycle model, wherein the lifecycle model comprises states and state transitions with each state transition caused by one or more activities in the given process, and wherein the given process is a business process model represented as a collection of communicating business entities; wherein dynamically generating a business entity that is used to formulate a response message in response to the at least one request comprises: sending the response message from the server to the client to respond to the at least one request obtained from the client.