Patent Document ID: 7689990
Application ID: 11090407

Base Claim:
1. A data processing system implemented method for managing a plurality of data processing system executable tasks each having a script associated therewith, the method comprising: presenting a list of computer executable tasks; selecting, from the list of the computer executable tasks, a selection of tasks; receiving a user input designating an operation from a plurality of operations to be applied to the selection of tasks, wherein the plurality of operations are selected as a function of a state of selected tasks, wherein the state of the selected tasks and a status of the selected tasks is a unique range of values; presenting scripts corresponding to the selected selection of tasks and selecting at least one script from the presented scripts, wherein no more than one script corresponds to each task; editing the at least one selected script; executing the at least one edited script by the data processing system; and presenting the at least one executed script as at least one new executable task in the list of computer executable tasks for further operation.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of operations comprises at least one of: canceling the tasks in the selection, displaying execution progress information for the tasks in the selection, changing execution priority for the tasks in the selection, removing the tasks in the selection from the plurality of computer executable tasks, launching an interactive application for manipulating the scripts corresponding to the tasks in the selection, launching the command editor on the scripts corresponding to the tasks in the selection, scheduling execution of the tasks in the selection at a user designated time, and any combination thereof.