Patent ID: 8407712
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture comprising at least one of a magnetic storage medium, and optical storage, and a computer readable memory including code implementing a workflow program and analyzer to cause operations to be performed by the workflow program and the analyzer, the operations comprising: processing, by the workflow program, user input at one node in a workflow comprised of nodes and workflow paths connecting the nodes, wherein the user provides user input to traverse through at least one workflow path to reach a current node, and wherein the current node comprises the node in the workflow at which the user is currently working; transmitting, by the workflow program, information on the current node or a node following the current node to the analyzer in response to processing at the current node in the workflow; maintaining a workflow modification having workflow modification instances providing changes to nodes in the workflow; processing, by the analyzer, the workflow modification to determine whether there is at least one workflow modification instance providing modifications in the workflow to at least one subsequent node following the current node over at least one workflow path from the current node, wherein the at least one modification to the at least one subsequent node comprises modifications from a later version of the workflow to provide an up-to-date version of the workflow nodes at the at least one subsequent node; and transmitting to the workflow program, by the analyzer, an update including modifications from the determined at least one workflow modification instance to the at least one subsequent node in response to determining the modifications.