Methods and apparatus for information hyperchain management for on-demand business collaboration

Abstract

The present invention provides an entity using method of a collaboration information exchange between at least one participating and at least one other entity and an apparatus thereof. Said method includes the steps of: obtaining sign data which includes one link or more links to the information corresponding to said collaboration information exchange; transmitting at least one part of said sign data to at least one other entity to realize that at least one other entity can access at least one part of the information corresponding to said collaboration information exchange through said one link or more links. The method and apparatus satisfy the need of the improved information management technology such as the application of on-demand business collaboration.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to information management technology, and more specifically, to information hyperlink management technology used in, for example, on-demand business collaboration applications. Background technique [0002] Now, business entities or enterprises are no longer isolated. Therefore, an enterprise does not need to produce all the products it needs. As a result, an enterprise can subcontract some of its business parts to its business partners. [0003] For example, in the case of engineering design collaboration, there are many manual or semi-automatic operations in the design process. Every company involved in the design collaboration needs to work with its logistics service providers and customers to make its business run well. Usually companies can support some proven services and products as part of their daily business processes or new product design processes. [0004] In new product design, as an example, a company t...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] However, the real technical barriers to effective outsourcing models are not business process representation and data transformation

The real problem is the interaction between two or more loosely linked business processes, which may be private business processes within their own business or public processes of multiple businesses

[0011] 1) Lack of a unified marking mechanism to represent control information separated from the actual documents to be exchanged;

[0012] 2) lack of a comprehensive collaborative model covering all aspects of unstructured and non-deterministic information exchange flows;

[0013] 3) Lack of efficient on-demand information mechanisms to dynamically locate resources from unstructured relational graphs and intelligently aggregate data from multiple resources; and

[0014] 4) Lack of traceable information embedding mechanism for visual control that solves major problems associated with data exchange in collaborative environments

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