Patent ID: 7533121

Claim:
At a client computer system in a computerized environment comprising a plurality of client computer systems, one or more process engines and one or more data stores, a method of executing one or more pages of a guided process with parallel processing, such that navigation of each of one or more parent pages or steps in the guided process clearly indicates what tasks remain to be performed for each of the one or more parent pages, comprising the acts of: a client computer, having a processor and memory, sending a request to a process engine to open a guided process, wherein the request includes user identification information for a user; receiving, at the client computer, rendering information from the process engine, the rendering information corresponding to a parent page in a process instance of the guided process, wherein the parent page includes one or more child page references wherein each child page reference links to a child page having one or more fields for receiving user input to complete an activity associated with the child page; displaying the parent page on the client computer using the rendering information such that each of the one or more child page references is displayed; upon the user selecting one of the child page references, displaying the child page including the one or more fields for receiving user input; upon the user supplying input for at least one of the one or more fields, sending the input to the process engine, wherein the input completes the activity associated with the child page; in response to supplying the input to the process engine, receiving alternate rendering information from the process engine, the alternate rendering information corresponding to the parent page; and displaying the parent page on the client computer using the alternate rendering information, wherein the alternate rendering information causes the parent page to be displayed with an indication that the child page has been completed.