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Method and system for enhancing and merging computer object rules

  • US 8,433,664 B2
  • Filed: 08/28/2008
  • Issued: 04/30/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for revising content in a computer rule set, the revisions made by at least an issuer of content, comprising:

  • determining if a difference exists between content data in a production table corresponding to an initial computer rule set and enhanced content data in an enhanced data table, wherein the content data and enhanced content data include at least one attribute, the at least one attribute is an action in a process operation, the enhanced content data is content revised by a first issuer and a second issuer and corresponds to a rule in the computer rule set, and the content data includes at least

         1) an enhancement category to indicate issuers having permissions to enhance the content data,

         2)an enhancement type to indicate specific portions of the content data that can be enhanced, and

         3) a data field to indicate an issuer that enhanced the content data;

    in response to determining a difference exists, reading the content data from the production table corresponding to the initial computer rule set and the enhanced content data from the enhanced data table;

    identifying enhancement data that is assigned to the first issuer and enhancement data that is assigned to the second issuer;

    calculating a precedence between the enhancement data that is assigned to the first issuer and the enhancement data that is assigned to the second issuer;

    confirming whether the rule enhanced in the computer rule set is allowed to be revised based on at least one of the enhancement category and the enhancement type;

    based on the results of the determining and confirming, incorporating the enhanced data from the enhanced data table into the production data table to provide a revised computer rule set, wherein the incorporation includes merging, based on the calculated precedence, the enhanced data with corresponding portions of the content data that can be enhanced by the first issuer and the second issuer as indicated by the at least one of the enhancement category and the enhancement type; and

    implementing the revised computer rule set, wherein operation of the rules is different from the operation of the rule in the initial rule set based on the enhanced data.

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