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System and method for ratification of policies

  • US 8,006,290 B2
  • Filed: 01/12/2006
  • Issued: 08/23/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for ratifying a policy in a policy-based decision system, comprising:

  • determining that a new policy interacts with an existing policy in the policy-based decision system;

    determining that the new policy conflicts with the existing policy by using a domain elimination algorithm;

    resolving the conflict between the new policy and the existing policy, wherein resolving the conflict between the new policy and the existing policy comprises displaying to a policy author information indicative of how to modify the new policy so that the conflict between the new policy and the existing policy can be resolved; and

    ratifying the new policy to exist in the policy-based decision system in response to the conflict between the new policy and the existing policy being resolved, determining a priority of the new policy with respect to the existing policy;

    assigning a priority value to the new policy, andreassigning a priority value to the existing policy if the priority value of the new policy is higher than the priority value of the existing policywherein the method is performed using a microprocessor,wherein the domain elimination algorithm uses the following conjunctive Boolean expression custom characteri=1n Bi, Bi=xcustom characterci, where ci, xε

    D and custom characterε

    {=, <

    , ≦

    , >

    , ≧

    }, and each atomic Boolean expression Bi restricts the domain of x to Di

    D,wherein the algorithm works by examining the Boolean expressions Bi one by one, and computing Rl=∩

    i=1l Bi at each step, where x is the new policy, D is a domain of existing policies, ci is a constant and Rn is the solution of the algorithm indicating the result of the conflict determination.

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