Patent ID: 7536427

Claim:
A computer-based method of comparing processes, the method comprising: generating a first process that corresponds to an activity, the activity having associated elements and the first process comprising tasks; generating data objects that correspond to the elements associated with the activity; identifying a number of data objects associated with the first process; obtaining a first reference size for the first process based on the number of data objects; determining that a data object from the number of data objects associated with the first process is split from the first process into a different process; calculating a new reference size as N 1 = N 0 ⁢ n c ⁡ ( S ) n C ⁡ ( S ) + n s , where N 1 is the new reference size, n C (S) is a number of data objects in a task S after the split from the first process, and n s is a number of data objects split into the different process; and comparing the new reference size to a second reference size, the second reference size corresponding to a second process; and generating a result of the comparing.