Method and apparatus for providing remote workflow management

摘要

An approach is provided for remote workflow management. The workflow repository, management and monitoring is performed from a remote facility while the resources that are required to execute the workflow may be in a completely different network. The resources of a subscriber network are identified. The identified resources are registered within a repository, wherein the repository is maintained by a service provider. The repository is configured to store rules for allocating the identified resources according to the defined business process flow. The allocated resources are applied to a workflow.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
identifying network resources of a remote subscriber network, wherein network resources are media, multimedia, video or digital contents; registering the identified network resources within a repository maintained by a single service provider, wherein registering the identified network resources includes registering, for each resource, information regarding physical location, access parameters which define the accessing levels, resource parameters such as codec, frame rate, frame size, bit rate, and availability schedule; generating a workflow definition in the repository conforming with the requirements of the registered identified network resources, wherein the workflow definition defines steps of a business process flow, and wherein the business process flow specifies activities relating to video processing including enable editing and delivering video content from a video server at the repository to authenticated subscribers; allocating a set of business rules corresponding to the authenticated subscribers for the registered identified network resources in accordance with respective requirements of the remote subscriber network; and applying the allocated network resources to the authenticated subscribers, corresponding to the workflow definition, of the remote subscriber network.