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Business rules manager

  • US 9,330,117 B2
  • Filed: 06/03/2013
  • Issued: 05/03/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented method for creating, updating, and deleting business rules, comprising:

  • a processor accepting a set of defined attributes, which represent a known state of an application session in which rules are evaluated, where each attribute is an enumeration with a set of enumerators;

    said processor accepting a set of rules tables, each of which contains one or more of the defined attributes;

    a rules manager automatically generating all possible unique combinations of values for a given set of attribute value;

    for each rules table, said processor generating a set of tuples, where each tuple represents one or more respective attribute value combinations and where no two tuples represent the same attribute value combination;

    for each rules table, said processor accepting a set of settings, where the setting is assigned a value for each tuple;

    A runtime interface for setting outputs for each desired attribute value combination in real-time and with which an application sets each attribute to a value andsaid rules manager providing the value of a setting requested by the application by using a rules table associated with the setting and looking up the setting value assigned to the tuple whose combination of enumerators matches the current value of the corresponding attributes.

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