SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ANALYZING AND DECOMPOSING A PLURALITY OF RULES INTO A PLURALITY OF CONTEXTS

• US 20110231412A1
• Filed: 05/09/2011
• Published: 09/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amdocs Development Limited (Amdocs Ltd.), Amdocs Software Systems Limited (Amdocs Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Amdocs Software Systems Limited (Amdocs Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kariv, Adi
• Granted Patent: US 8,868,563 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/749
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for analyzing a plurality of rules in a textual rules structure. Further, the plurality of rules are decomposed into a plurality of contexts, based on the analysis. In addition, the plurality of contexts are stored in a table. Furthermore, a database associated with a device and/or any robot equipped with an operating system may be utilized.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

analyzing a plurality of rules in a textual rules structure;

decomposing the plurality of rules into a plurality of contexts, based on the analysis;

storing the plurality of contexts into a table.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the textual rules structure includes a rules file.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the rules file is application specific.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the application specific rules file is analyzed by an interpreting module.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each context in the plurality of contexts include at least one value capable of being utilized for filtering.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein each context may include one of a source address, a source port, a source type, a destination address, a destination port, a destination type, a protocol, a service, a reason, a product, message information, an originating number, a destination number, a time, a date, a timestamp, a duration, a flag, a condition, a session record, and an attack.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if the plurality of contexts includes at least one duplicate context.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising removing the at least one duplicate context from the plurality of contexts prior to the storing, if it is determined that the plurality of contexts includes the at least one duplicate context.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a corresponding table identifier associated with one of the plurality of contexts.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the corresponding table identifier is stored in the table with the one of the plurality of contexts.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a plurality of concatenated values, each concatenated value comprising one value associated with a context of one of the plurality of contexts joined with one value associated with at least one other context of the one of the plurality of contexts.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of concatenated values are hashed.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising storing the plurality of concatenated values in a plurality of filtering tables.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of filtering tables include a light context filtering table, a heavy context filtering table, a heavy and light context filtering table, and a looping and not looping filtering table.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of filtering tables include a corresponding table identifier associated with the one of the plurality of contexts.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing each of the plurality of rules in a rules table.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein each of the plurality of rules is associated with at least one of the plurality of contexts stored in the table.

18. A computer program product embodied on a tangible computer readable medium, comprising:

computer code for analyzing a plurality of rules in a textual rules structure;

computer code for decomposing the plurality of rules into a plurality of contexts, based on the analysis;

computer code for storing the plurality of contexts in a table.

19. A system, comprising:

a processor for analyzing a plurality of rules in a textual rules structure, and decomposing the plurality of rules into a plurality of contexts, based on the analysis; and

memory for storing the plurality of contexts in a table.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the processor is coupled to the memory via a bus.