Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1996-06-11
1999-10-12
Trammell, James P.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
395701, 707 3, 707103, 707104, 707 10, 709203, 706 47, 706 45, 706922, 706934, 345335, 345333, 345968, 345961, G06F 944, G06F 1730
Patent
active
059665335
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for dynamically synthesizing a computer program based on user context data is provided. In accordance with the invention, a request is received to generate a computer program for an identified user. In response, an incomplete definition of the computer program, from which portions of the definition are omitted, is retrieved. For each portion of the computer program omitted from the incomplete definition of the computer program, a plurality of possible versions of the omitted portion are accessed. Each possible version produces a different behavior in the computer program when it is added to the computer program. Further, each possible version has one or more conditions that may be evaluated against user attributes for the identified user to determine whether the possible version is acceptable for the user. Next, for each possible version of each omitted portion, the conditions of the possible version are evaluated to determine whether the possible version is acceptable for the user. A preference rule is then used to select, for each omitted portion, one possible version determined to be acceptable. Finally, the versions of the omitted portions of the computer program selected as preferred are added to the incomplete definition of the computer program in order to complete the definition of the computer program. In a further preferred embodiment of the present invention, the completed computer program is executed on behalf of the identified user.
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Dam Tuan Q.
Excite, Inc.
Trammell James P.
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