Patent Document ID: 6138088
Application ID: 08995442

Base Claim:
1. A method for control of documents of a business process using a computer system, in which the business process has activities, and the activities have conditions, characterized by automatic checking of a document for at least one of the conditions using a method of natural language processing in which: the automatic checking is performed automatically using the computer system by allocation of the document to a description, the document has at least one word, which exists in the computer system in digital form, functional descriptions of linguistic information in the form of directed acyclic graphs are stored in the computer system; the directed acyclic graphs belonging to the descriptions are applied to the documents; the acyclic graph relating to the document are initiated by means of a parsing process; and the functional description contains at least one address to which the documents are forwarded.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 in which the document is a letter received by a company; and the descriptions are allocated to various specialist areas of the company.