Patents by Inventor Yoshihide Ohmura

Yoshihide Ohmura 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).

  • Patent number: 6151583
    Abstract: A workflow management method in a workflow system including a workflow server and tables for holding processes includes storing in a table a plurality of definition information sets for individually defining workflows for a plurality of processes included in a job for processing a plurality of works to be circulated, wherein the plurality of definition information sets each have a process ID, a process name, and a user role ID, and at least one of the plurality of definition information set has predetermined data for connecting processing defined by another definition information set in the user role ID, and storing in a table a work management information set created for each of the plurality of works subjected to processing by the job, the work management information set having a process ID, a process name, a user role ID, and a flag representative of whether or not workflow processing corresponding to processing of each work has been terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Ohmura, Takashi Kobayashi, Katsuaki Sakai, Nobuo Nagai, Shoko Ogoshi