Patent ID: 7055109

Claim:
A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for capturing in workflow solutions the policies a business uses to guide its activities, said method steps comprising: operating a digital computer to visually display in a display panel of a computer input/output device a navigation space and a plurality of scrollable lists including a noun list, a verbs list and an attributes list; responsive to selection by a user of said computer input/output device of a noun list entry, a verbs list entry, and an attributes list entry, operating said digital computer to highlight in said navigation space a point representing a process tuple; responsive to selection by said user of said computer input/output device of two entries from two of said lists, operating said digital computer to highlight in said navigation space a highlighted plane of points representing process tuples for all entries in the list not selected; responsive to selection of a highlighted point by said user of said computer input/output device, operating said digital computer to display a definition of a workflow process represented by said highlighted point and an embedded object for executing said workflow process; and operating said digital computer selectively to execute said embedded object to perform said workflow process.