[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 8043]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-3501]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


National Institute of Standards and Technology

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 
CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (``NIST''), U.S. Department of Commerce, is contemplating 
the grant of an exclusive license in the United States of America, its 
territories, possessions and commonwealths, to NIST's interest in the 
invention embodied in U.S. Patent No. 6,088,679 (Application No. 08/
980,908), titled ``Workflow Management Employing Role-based Access 
Control,'' NIST Docket No. 96-052 to Rockwise, Inc., having a place of 
business at 223 Surnac Circle, Morgantown, WV 26508. The grant of the 
license would be for the field of use: HealthCare Information 
Technology.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. Terry Lynch, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Office of Technology Partnerships, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Stop 2200, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Phone 301-975-2691.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The prospective exclusive license will be 
royalty bearing and will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The prospective exclusive license may be 
granted unless, within thirty days from the date of this published 
Notice, NIST receives written evidence and argument which establish 
that the grant of the license would not be consistent with the 
requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The availability of the 
invention for licensing was published in the Federal Register on March 
4, 1998.
    U.S. Patent No. 6,088,679 is owned by the U.S. government, as 
represented by the Secretary of Commerce. The patent involves a 
workflow sequence specified by a process definition that is managed by 
a workflow management system which enacts each segment in the order 
specified by that process definition. Role-based access control (RBAC) 
is used to define membership of individuals in groups, i.e., to assign 
individuals to roles, and to then activate the roles with respect to 
the process at appropriate points in the sequence. Any individual 
belonging to the active role can perform the next step in the business 
process. Changes in the duties and responsibilities of individuals as 
they change job assignments are greatly simplified, as their role 
memberships are simply reassigned; the workflow process is unaffected.

    Dated: February 17, 2010.
Marc G. Stanley,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 2010-3501 Filed 2-22-10; 8:45 am]
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