Patent Document ID: 20120185517
Application ID: 13325317
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for creating OWL (Web Ontology Language) ontology rom a BL (Universal Business Language) process diagram, the UBL process diagram comprising one or more processes, one or more partitions, one or more activities, one or more objects, an initial node, and a final node, the method comprising: a. extracting at least one of the one or more processes, the one or more partitions, the one or more activities, and the one or more objects from the UBL process diagram; b. creating a first OWL class corresponding to the one or more processes, the one or more processes being assigned as instances to the first OWL class; c. creating a second OWL class corresponding to the one or more partitions, the one or more partitions being assigned as instances to the second OWL class; d. creating a third OWL class corresponding to the one or more objects, the one or more objects being assigned as instances to the third OWL class; e. creating an object property corresponding to each of the one or more activities; and f. adding the first OWL class, the second OWL class, the third OWL class, and each of the created object property, thereby facilitating the creation of the OWL ontology.