Patents by Inventor Duane Wandless

Duane Wandless has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for controlling view navigation in workflow systems
    Patent number: 7685527
    Abstract: Embodiments of an apparatus, method, and article of manufacture for controlling view navigation in a workflow environment are disclosed herein. View navigation is controlled by incorporating and utilizing a user-interact operation in a workflow editing application. A workflow process designer may define the user-interact operation from one or more pre-designed views provided for the particular business objectives associated with the workflow process. In one embodiment, users may be navigated to specific views to gather information necessary to the completion of the workflow process, or to facilitate the processing of information across the workflow process to accomplish the business objectives embodied in the workflow process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Heung-Wah Yan, Daqing Zhang, Duane Wandless
  • Method and apparatus for controlling view navigation in workflow systems
    Publication number: 20070240046
    Abstract: Embodiments of an apparatus, method, and article of manufacture for controlling view navigation in a workflow environment are disclosed herein. View navigation is controlled by incorporating and utilizing a user-interact operation in a workflow editing application. A workflow process designer may define the user-interact operation from one or more pre-designed views provided for the particular business objectives associated with the workflow process. In one embodiment, users may be navigated to specific views to gather information necessary to the completion of the workflow process, or to facilitate the processing of information across the workflow process to accomplish the business objectives embodied in the workflow process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Heung-Wah Yan, Daqing Zhang, Duane Wandless
  • Assignment manager
    Publication number: 20050091098
    Abstract: A method, a program product, and a system for assigning resources to tasks in a rule based, resource constrained system. This is done by receiving as inputs tasks and task attributes; resources and resource attributes; and assignment rules. These inputs are used to searching a database of tasks, task attributes, and assignment rules thereof, to search a database of resources including resource attributes thereof, and to retrieve resources based upon the resource attributes. Resources are assigned to tasks based upon matches and scores of the resource attributes, the task attributes, and the assignment rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Brodersen, Prashant Chatterjee, Peter Lim, Matthew Malden, Duane Wandless
  • Assignment manager
    Patent number: 6850895
    Abstract: A method, a program product, and a system for assigning resources to tasks in a rule based, resource constrained system. This is done by receiving as inputs tasks and task attributes; resources and resource attributes; and assignment rules. These inputs are used to searching a database of tasks, task attributes, and assignment rules thereof, to search a database of resources including resource attributes thereof, and to retrieve resources based upon the resource attributes. Resources are assigned to tasks based upon matches and scores of the resource attributes, the task attributes, and the assignment rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Brodersen, Prashant Chatterjee, Peter Siam Sy Lim, III, Matthew S. Malden, Duane Wandless
  • Assignment manager
    Publication number: 20020029161
    Abstract: A method, a program product, and a system for assigning resources to tasks in a rule based, resource constrained system. This is done by receiving as inputs tasks and task attributes; resources and resource attributes; and assignment rules. These inputs are used to searching a database of tasks, task attributes, and assignment rules thereof, to search a database of resources including resource attributes thereof, and to retrieve resources based upon the resource attributes. Resources are assigned to tasks based upon matches and scores of the resource attributes, the task attributes, and the assignment rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Robert A. Brodersen, Prashant Chatterjee, Peter Siam Sy Lim, Matthew S. Malden, Duane Wandless