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Standards Organization
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OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OASIS Headquarters:
Post Office Box 455
Billerica, MA 01821
USA
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http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php
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Standard / Specification Name
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OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsbpel
Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL4WS or BPEL) addresses the integration logic and process automation between Web Services.
The BPEL language provides for the formal specification of business processes and interaction protocols, for the support of business transactions.
Process mechanisms supported through BPEL include:
- Process activity sequencing.
- Message and process instance correlation.
- Recovery behavior.
- Bilateral Web Service relationships.
BPEL for Web Services provides a standardized integration interface and a standardized language for integration and process automation.
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Standards Organization Disclosure Statement
IBM OASIS Business Process Execution Language for Web Services Intellectual Property Disclosure, 10 June 2003
IBM, as an OASIS Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, Version 1.1, May 5, 2003 (BPEL) specification development participant, supports a full disclosure policy for essential published patent applications and issued patents, and an acknowledgement policy for potentially essential unpublished patent applications.
IBM intellectual property disclosures are based upon the working knowledge of those individuals involved with the respective Technical Committee and do not represent the results of an IBM patent portfolio search.
At this time, IBM believes the following published patent applications contain one or more claims which, if allowed and issued, may be essential to compliant implementations of the BPEL specification.
IBM Docket No. DE919960050:
European Patent Application EP0854431
EVENTS AS ACTIVITIES IN PROCESS MODELS OF WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
European Application Number: EP1997000120539
Publication Date: July 22, 1998
Authors: Leymann, Frank; Roller, Dieter;
IBM Docket No. DE920010058:
PCT Patent Application WO02093437
SIGNALLING EVENTS IN WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
PCT Application Number: WO2002EP0004252
Publication Date: Nov. 21, 2002
Authors: Leymann, Frank; Roller, Dieter;
IBM Docket No. DE920000095:
Japanese Patent Application JP2002334194
METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING SELECTIVE COMMAND CONTROL IN WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Japanese Application Number: JP2002000029624
Publication Date: Nov. 22, 2002
Authors: Leymann, Frank; Roller, Dieter
United States of America Patent Application US20020111841
CONTROLLING COMMANDS IN WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
United States of America Application Number: US2002000068370
Publication Date: Aug 15, 2002
Authors: Leymann, Frank; Roller, Dieter
IBM believes it has one unpublished U.S. patent applications, containing one or more claims which, if allowed and issued, are potentially essential to compliant implementations of the BPEL specification. IBM is unable to provide more specific information regarding these unpublished patent applications, until such time as the applications are published or the patents are issued. (When and if the unpublished patent applications become published, IBM will be able to provide this documentation to the OASIS Technical Committee.)
IBM will, upon written request, provide a nonexclusive, royalty free patent license, with other reasonable terms and conditions for claims in patents issued to IBM which claims are essential to implementations of the BPEL specification, and for which IBM is able to provide patent licenses (including patents issuing on the published and unpublished patent applications disclosed above), for implementing the BPEL specification. Should those requesting a patent license also have essential claims to the BPEL specification, IBM will grant the patent license provided that the recipient, in return, will grant IBM a reciprocal license to their essential claim(s).
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IBM License
BPEL Patent License in PDF format
BPELspec_patlic_032004.pdf
Information for processing the IBM patent License
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Armonk, New York 10504
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