Patents by Inventor Ali A. Alkhwaildi

Ali A. Alkhwaildi 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 SYSTEM FOR MANAGING APPROVAL WORKFLOW PROCESSES IN A NETWORK SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20230297962
    Abstract: Coordination and management of workflows in parallel among a plurality of approval applications executing on machines within an enterprise network by receiving, at a central location, workflows from an initiating application, determining a set of approvals for each respective workflow and respective approval routes, performing an initial distribution of the respective workflows from the central location by propagating the workflows across their respective approval routes to respective members of the set of approval applications, applying at respective approval applications a set of approval rules to the workflow to determine a workflow’s approval status as either approved or rejected, returning the workflow’s approval status to the initiating application via the central location, and performing one or more follow-up distributions of workflows from the central location until either all approval applications indicate a status of approved or a number of follow-up distributions reaches a pre-defined maximum numbe
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ali H. Alabdrabalnabi, Isa M. Almarzoug, Ali A. Alkhwaildi
  • Method and system for managing approval workflow processes in a network system
    Patent number: 11663555
    Abstract: Coordination and management of workflows in parallel among a plurality of approval applications executing on machines within an enterprise network by receiving, at a central location, workflows from an initiating application, determining a set of approvals for each respective workflow and respective approval routes, performing an initial distribution of the respective workflows from the central location by propagating the workflows across their respective approval routes to respective members of the set of approval applications, applying at respective approval applications a set of approval rules to the workflow to determine a workflow's approval status as either approved or rejected, returning the workflow's approval status to the initiating application via the central location, and performing one or more follow-up distributions of workflows from the central location until either all approval applications indicate a status of approved or a number of follow-up distributions reaches a pre-defined maximum numbe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Ali H. Alabdrabalnabi, Isa M. Almarzoug, Ali A. Alkhwaildi
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING APPROVAL WORKFLOW PROCESSES IN A NETWORK SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210406831
    Abstract: Coordination and management of workflows in parallel among a plurality of approval applications executing on machines within an enterprise network by receiving, at a central location, workflows from an initiating application, determining a set of approvals for each respective workflow and respective approval routes, performing an initial distribution of the respective workflows from the central location by propagating the workflows across their respective approval routes to respective members of the set of approval applications, applying at respective approval applications a set of approval rules to the workflow to determine a workflow's approval status as either approved or rejected, returning the workflow's approval status to the initiating application via the central location, and performing one or more follow-up distributions of workflows from the central location until either all approval applications indicate a status of approved or a number of follow-up distributions reaches a pre-defined maximum numbe
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ali H. Alabdrabalnabi, Isa M. Almarzoug, Ali A. Alkhwaildi