Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080228742 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF AUTOMATIC METHOD SIGNATURE ADAPTATION FOR DYNAMIC WEB SERVICE INVOCATION - A method (and apparatus) for adapting an input parameter, for dynamically invoke the target Web services, and for adapting output results, the method including: receiving an invocation request including an input parameter in a first format; retrieving MetaWSDL (Meta Web Service Description Language) wherein said MetaWSDL includes a universal XML (eXtended Markup Language) representation which includes semantic information of a Web service method signature; invoking a MetaWSDL processor to adapt the input parameter to a second format using the retrieved MetaWSDL; dynamically invoking the target Web services using the adapted parameter in the second format; and adapting the output result in a first format to a second format using the MetaWSDL. | 09-18-2008 |
20080288792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ADAPTIVE INTEGRATION ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT FOR BUSINESS APPLICATION INTEGRATION - An adaptive integration activity management framework for on demand business process integration provides a mechanism to enable easy integration of legacy and new applications. The framework minimizes the effort need to integrate a new application into an existing business process environment such that the new activity is a “plug-in” into an action manager by implementing a standard adaptation layer. Activity integration is implemented in the principle of “on-demand” because it is invoked as required, so the communication and collaboration between partners become much more flexible. | 11-20-2008 |
20090006146 | System and Method for Modeling Slow Changing Dimension and Auto Management Using Model Driven Business Performance Management - A system for generating a model for tracking a changing dimension feature of data in a business model includes a memory for storing the business model and a computer readable code for modeling the changes in the changing dimension feature and a processor for executing the computer readable code to perform method steps including capturing the changing dimension feature of the business model, transforming the changing dimension feature into a data warehouse model corresponding the business model, identifying changing dimensions and attributes in the changing dimension feature according to the data warehouse model, and generating a run-time deployable component for tracking the changing dimension feature based on the identified changing dimensions and attributes. | 01-01-2009 |
20090024426 | Method and Apparatus for Dynamic Evolution in Business Performance Management - A policy-driven approach to Business Performance Management (BPM) evolution is to capture the mechanism of BPM solution evolutions. These policies are executed by the runtime infrastructure which transforms and interprets evolution policies and allows fine granularity controls on solution evolution. At transformation time, the relationship among the event processing progress and the runtime state is derived based on the observation model. Such relationship information allows verification of freshness of migrating data and parallelization of runtime state validation and event processing. Consistent and efficient evolution of BPM solutions transit while event processing is operational. | 01-22-2009 |
20090234758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING PROFIT LEAKAGE - A method, information processing system, and computer readable storage medium manage and predict profit leakage. A dynamic deduction space is created that includes a plurality of dimensions associated with historical deduction data and profit leakage information associated with a combination of two or more of the dimensions. Information associated with an open deduction is received. A dimension set in the deduction space is identified that corresponds to the open deduction. A profit leakage classification is assigned to the open deduction based on profit leakage information associated with the dimension set. | 09-17-2009 |
20100002864 | Method and System for Discerning Learning Characteristics of Individual Knowledge Worker and Associated Team In Service Delivery - A method and system for measuring the learning ability and productivity of knowledge workers related to the delivery of services in service industry sectors, such as information technology (IT), healthcare and accounting. The method and system applies broadly to service domains that have a strong correlation between the learning ability and skill level of workers wherein the correlation affects the quality of service delivery. Utilizing data mining techniques, the method and system captures, analyzes and benchmarks individual knowledge worker's skill(s) in order to normalize individual service agent proficiencies. The normalized service agent proficiencies allows the relative learning and skill indices of the individual service agents to be determined such that the skills and learning abilities of individual service agents to be determined. The method and system allows best practices and training thresholds to be determined. | 01-07-2010 |
20110219375 | ENHANCED WORK-FLOW MODEL CAPABLE OF HANDLING EXCEPTIONS - A system and method for augmenting a work-flow model to handle all expected and unexpected exceptions during run-time. The system includes an Exception Handling Knowledge Base (EHKB), a Work-flow Manager for managing the execution of the work-flow model and automatically adding exception transitions from the EHKB to the model except those forbidden, and a Work-flow Monitor for monitoring the model execution. The Monitor generating alerts to a business manager when the exceptions are encountered. At build-time, a process analyst could define a process schema in a Process Schema Repository, specify a forbidden exception or modify a schema to handle an exception based on guidance from the EHKB. At run-time, a user may initiate a forbidden exception with approval from the business manager. | 09-08-2011 |
20120046966 | Health Management Application Development and Deployment Framework - Techniques are disclosed for developing health management applications and managing health issues associated with one or more individuals or subjects. For example, a health management system includes the following modules. A health data transformation and routing module converts raw health data to at least one common format and routes the common format health data to one or more other modules that at least one of process and store the common format health data. A health monitoring module receives at least a portion of the common format health data, processes the received data, and provides one or more notifications based on processing results. A health analytics module receives data from one or more other modules and generates health knowledge based on the received data. A health data and knowledge storage module stores data from one or more other modules. Each of the health data transformation and routing module, the health monitoring module, and the health analytics module include one or more application programming interfaces for use in at least one of adding and editing logic associated with the respective module. | 02-23-2012 |
20120166254 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ON DEMAND BUSINESS ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT USING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT LOOPS - An architecture, system, and method are provided for a commitment loop solution for on demand business activity management. A Business Performance Management (BPM) loop includes nodes each relating to different tasks for processing performance management trigger data generated by a business entity in real time. The beginning or sensing element of the loop is triggered by a token (representing a business event from a business process). The ending or executing element provides a business action to be implemented by the business entity. The token is passed from node to node sequentially in a particular order around the loop. Processing of the data represented by the token is governed by policies, which can be changed dynamically and follow a life cycle. | 06-28-2012 |
20120183932 | Location-Aware Nutrition Management - Techniques for providing personalized location-aware nutrition management information are provided. The techniques include receiving geographical coordinates of an individual, acquiring nutritional information from one or more food providers within a designated proximity of the geographical coordinates of the individual, generating one or more nutrition selection options for the individual based on the nutritional information from the one or more food providers within a designated proximity of the geographical coordinates of the individual and dynamic nutritional guidelines for the individual, and outputting the one or more nutrition selection options to the individual. | 07-19-2012 |
20130144803 | Method and System for Generating One Flow Models from Runtime Service Delivery Process - A method and system for generating new abstractions for existing process models and modifying existing process models in order to generate new process models by mining run-time service delivery processes. The method and system also “learns” new abstractions for business process models by modifying existing models. The method and system generates new business process models utilizing an online learning mechanism that mines run-time service delivery processes. | 06-06-2013 |