Patent ID: 7174338

Claim:
A computerized method for determining an addressee of a signaling request within a Workflow Management System or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS), said WFSM administrating a process-instance being the instance of a process-model of a business-process: and said method being further characterized by said process-model comprising at least one event-activity, and in a first-step said WFMS receiving a signaling request, said signaling request providing a set of signal data elements; and said signal data elements not comprising any explicit specification identifying said process-instance or said event-activity as addressee of said signaling request; and in a second-step said WFMS determining whether said process-model comprises an event-identification-specification involving a subset of said signal data elements: and, in the affirmative case, evaluating said event-identification-specification to indirectly decide if said event-activity is an addressee of said signaling request; and, in a third-step said WFMS providing said signaling request to said event-activity as addressee.