System of generating and implementing rules

• US 6,442,537 B1
• Filed: 06/24/1999
• Issued: 08/27/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Telean Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: Teleran Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Karch, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Holmes, Michael B.
• Application Number:
  US09/338,994
• Time in Patent Office: 1,160 Days
• Field of Search: 56/105, 706/50, 707/2
• US Class Current: 706/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/43 Checking; Contextual analysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing

Abstract

A system of rules described which allows for generic rules to be customized and utilized in specific environments on a dynamic and specific basis.

Claims

1. A system of generating rules to be used in an artificial intelligence system comprising:

a template rule library for storing generic unusable template rules that require parameters to be filled in prior to firing;

a site specific domain model that includes information sufficient to fill in said parameters;

means for merging the site specific domain model with the template rule library to generate custom rules; and

means for storing and applying such custom rules.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said custom rules are periodic in nature.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein at least one of said custom rules specifies that a template rule is to be merged with a site specific domain model to generate a new custom rule.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein said custom rule specifies that a specific template rule is to be processed at different times with different site specific domain models in order to generate new and different custom rules.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said custom rules are such that they only fire based upon particular characteristics of a domain object being operated on.

10. The system of claim 3 wherein said custom rule specifies that a specific template rule is to be processed with a site specific model if and when some other event occurs.

11. The system of claim 3 wherein said custom rule specifies that a specific template rule is to be processed if and when some other event occurs at a particular time.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein said custom rule specifies that different template rules are to be processed with the same site specific domain models periodically in order to generate new custom rules.

6. A system for customizing rules from a rule template database comprising the steps of:

determining, from a plurality of objects, criteria that causes said objects to be classified into different classes of a class structure;

forming specific rules from template rules by combining said template rules with said determined criteria.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein said object is a database query.

8. The system of claim 7 further comprising means for selecting one or more of said formed rules to implement and to operate upon said database query.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said rules are generated to fire periodically.