Partial evaluation of rule sets

Details Partial evaluation of rule sets Partial evaluation of rule sets

2011-08-23

2011-08-23

Mofiz, Apu M (Department: 2161)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Data integrity

Policy, rule-based management of records, files, and documents

C707S999009, C707S999101, C707S999102

Reexamination Certificate

active

08005802

ABSTRACT:
Described herein are various approaches that allow rules to be used to specify actions, that alleviate the complexity and burden of developing and maintaining rules in a rules-based messaging system, and that provide more efficient ways of evaluating rules. The approaches allow rules to specify user-defined transformation functions for transforming messages, to specify when and how to perform row migration, and to specify other types of actions. Rules are grouped into rule sets. Several types of rule sets, referred to as positive and negative rule sets, allow users to use rules that are less complex to develop and maintain. Rule sets are evaluated more efficiently by attempting to evaluate the rule set with less information than is needed to evaluate all the rules in the rule set. Also, the results of rules evaluations that are based on a set of values are cached for later retrieval.

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