Patent ID: 7546301
Filing Date: 2009-06-09
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A network system comprising: at least one service provider network, said at least one service provider network including an information, communications and entertainment service provider network; at least one information, communications and entertainment service delivery platform operably connected to the information, communications and entertainment service provider network; an enterprise network, said enterprise network including at least one of a local-area network and a wide area network, said enterprise network operable to be managed according to at least one first business process flow for communicating and exchanging information over said enterprise network; a plurality of resource entities, each of said plurality of resource entities coupled to said enterprise network; at least one process flow management server interfaced with said enterprise network for managing said at least one business process flow, wherein said at least one first business process flow is horizontally modularized into a plurality of discrete process flow blocks for causing at least one service application module, supported by said at least one information, communication and entertainment service delivery platform, to interface with said process flow blocks for providing services that are contextualized dependent upon where a project corresponding to said modularized business process flow is located in said modularized business process flow; and a second business process flow is modularized vertically thereby resulting in a plurality of vertically tiered sub-processes, wherein one of the plurality business processes flows includes a bid review process flow that includes a bid review process associated with a customer's request for proposal (RFP) or a bid review process associated with a customer's request for information (RFI); hardware components of said enterprise network operably coupled to hardware components of said at least one service provider network via a gateway node thereby enabling said information, communications and entertainment service provider network to provides provide a plurality of custom services to said enterprise network based upon each of said plurality of resource entities of said enterprise network.