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Method and system for configuring rules for execution

US9171260B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

AMDOCS SOFTWARE SYSTEMS LIMITED · IE

Inventors

Sidney Bailin · Washington, US
Ian Klein · Loganville, US
David Witten · Arlington, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 14, 2014
Grant date	Oct 27, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 14, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06Q10/06
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Data-driven rules are eliminated from an application, and replaced with goal-driven rules that formally and completely characterize high-level business concepts, while enabling the resulting goal-driven rules to be executed eagerly using a forward chaining rule engine in a way that preserves the data-driven behavior of the original rules. A computer-implemented method for executing business rules provides a unified rule that encapsulates a goal-oriented rule with triggering information selected from dependencies of the goal-oriented rule. The unified rule may be eagerly executed in response to changes in data specified by the dependencies, or lazily executed in response to a request for the value computed by the rule.

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