UNIFIED MODEL FOR AUTHORING AND EXECUTING FLOW-BASED AND CONSTRAINT-BASED WORKFLOWS

Patent №

US 7,805,324

Granted

2010-09-28

Filed 2005

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

3

kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11046988

Designing and executing a workflow having flow-based and constraint-based regions. A user selects one or more activities to be part of a constraint-based region. Each constraint-based region has a constraint associated therewith. The workflow is executed by executing the flow-based region and the constraint-based region. The flow-based region executes sequentially. The constraint is evaluated, and the constraint-based region executes responsive to the evaluated constraint.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.99
AI hardware0.96
Natural language0.02
Machine learning0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 157160075

Assignors

GREEN, DAVID G., MEHTA, BIMAL K., THATTE, SATISH R., SHUKLA, DARMA K., PARASNIS, ABHAY VINAYAK

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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