Patent ID: 7925985

Claim:
A method of presenting runtime structure and state information associated with a composite application executing in an enterprise environment, the method comprising: accessing enterprise server data from a server of an enterprise system, wherein the enterprise server data corresponds to a plurality of runtime business processes of the composite application and describes a structure and status for multiple business process phases within each of the plurality of runtime business process, and wherein one or more of the runtime business processes include a guided procedure service having a logical flow of the multiple business process phases associated with the guided procedure service including a chronological order of business process phases for the guided procedure service, and a level of progress of the business process phases for the guided procedure service, and wherein the guided procedure service specifies one or more human interactions to be performed and completed in fulfillment of the guided procedure service; and generating and rendering a display interface based on credentials and viewing preferences of a user of the composite application, wherein generating and rendering the display interface comprises: generating a cockpit view of the composite application wherein the cockpit view comprises a thumbnail representation for each of the plurality of runtime business processes within the composite application; generating the contents of each of the plurality of thumbnail representations for the cockpit view of the composite application, wherein generating the contents of each of the plurality of thumbnail representations comprises: generating a process phase status icon for each of the multiple business process phases of the respective runtime business process, wherein each phase status icon to graphically represent business process phase within the respective thumbnail representation and to graphically indicate a status of the business process phase within the respective thumbnail representation, and generating a minimized view of an actual instance of the respective runtime business process within the composite application to which the thumbnail representation of the cockpit view corresponds including a real-time presentation of enterprise-level data associated with the respective runtime business process to which the thumbnail representation of the cockpit view corresponds, and displaying each of the plurality of thumbnail representations for the cockpit view of the composite application.