SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING SUGGESTED ENTRIES FOR POLICY SETS WITH INCOMPLETE COVERAGE

• US 20100049558A1
• Filed: 08/21/2008
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Karat, Clare-Marie, Calo, Seraphin Bernard, George, David Alson, Beigi, Mandis S., Brodie, Carolyn
• Granted Patent: US 8,290,841 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes

Abstract

A system and method for determining policy coverage and generating a suggested policy for gaps in the policy coverage includes determining policy coverage for one or more policies in a policy coverage space and determining regions uncovered by the policy coverage in the policy coverage space. Suggested policies are generated to cover the regions uncovered by the policy coverage. The policy coverage is supplemented with the suggested polices to complete coverage of a policy set.

Claims

1. A method for ensuring policy coverage, comprising:

determining a policy coverage for one or more policies covering a region in a policy coverage space;

determining at least one region not covered by the policy coverage in the policy coverage space;

generating one or more suggested policies to cover at least one of the regions not covered by the policy coverage; and

supplementing the policy coverage with the one or more suggested polices to complete a policy coverage region of the policy coverage space.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein determining a policy coverage includes determining a policy coverage for each of the one or more policies and for the policy set.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein determining a policy coverage includes building hypercubes defining policy coverage in the policy coverage space.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein determining at least one region not covered by the policy coverage in the policy coverage space includes extracting regions not covered by the hypercubes.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein generating one or more suggested policies includes selecting a policy based on historic data.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein generating one or more suggested policies includes selecting a policy based on a likelihood that the policy is correct.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising manually inserting decisions into suggested policies.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

identifying a redundant policy, and identifying conflicting policies in a set of policies specific set of conditions.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, further comprising adjusting at least one policy to correct an identified problem.

10. A computer readable medium comprising a computer readable program for ensuring policy coverage, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of:

determining a policy coverage for one or more policies covering a region in a policy coverage space;

determining at least one region not covered by the policy coverage in the policy coverage space;

generating one or more suggested policies to cover at least one of the regions not covered by the policy coverage; and

supplementing the policy coverage with the one or more suggested polices to complete a policy coverage region of the policy coverage space.

11. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 10, wherein determining a policy coverage includes determining a policy coverage for each of the one or more policies and for the policy set.

12. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 10, wherein determining a policy coverage includes building hypercubes defining policy coverage in the policy coverage space.

13. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 12, wherein determining at least one region not covered by the policy coverage in the policy coverage space includes extracting regions not covered by the hypercubes.

14. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 10, wherein generating one or more suggested policies includes selecting a policy based on historic data.

15. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 10, wherein generating one or more suggested policies includes selecting a policy based on likelihood that the policy is correct.

16. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 10, further comprising inserting decisions into suggested policies.

17. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 10, further comprising at least one of:

identifying a redundant policy, and identifying conflicting policies in a set of policies specific set of conditions.

18. The computer readable medium as recited in claim 17, further comprising adjusting at least one policy to correct an identified problem.

19. A method for generating suggested policies to fulfill policy gaps, comprising:

defining a policy domain affecting a composition of a policy condition;

defining applicable ranges of all attributes of policies in the policy domain;

analyzing policies to determine if regions of the domain remain uncovered by the policies;

generating at least one suggested policy to cover one of a condition gap that remains uncovered by the policies and conflicts between policies; and

altering the policy domain to fill the condition gap or resolve conflicts between the policies.

20. The method as recited in claim 19, further comprising recommending a policy decision in accordance with similar policies within the policy domain.

21. The method as recited in claim 19, further comprising specifying an empty policy decision for the suggested policy.

22. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the attributes include one or more of sensors, applicable temporal factors, and system state.

23. The method as recited in claim 22, wherein the attributes of the sensors include one or more of integers, floating point numbers, characters, and enumerated values.

24. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein generating at least one suggested policy includes ranking suggested policies based on criteria.

25. A computer readable medium comprising a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of claim 19.