Stored, temporary alteration of business logic

Details Stored, temporary alteration of business logic Stored, temporary alteration of business logic

2001-09-14

2010-12-28

Kyle, Charles R (Department: 3695)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

Finance

C705S03600T, C705S038000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07860777

ABSTRACT:
A method and system are presented for making temporary changes to business logic implemented in a software program. In the preferred embodiment, business logic is stored in rules that are associated together in a series of tests. Changes to the business logic are stored in overrides, which contain one or more instructions for altering the rules. These instructions can either add or delete a business rule, or can create a new test that contains multiple business rules. The overrides themselves are grouped together into negotiations. Since the changes to the rule set are stored in overrides, no changes are made to the base rule set. Thus, updates to the base rule set are immediately effective in implementations using one or more overrides. When an evaluation is conducted in situations requiring a variation from the standard business process, the base rule set is still utilized as a starting point. The negotiations and associated overrides are then loaded and the changes found in the overrides are made to the base set. Only at this point does rules engine begin analyzing the rule set.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6233566 (2001-05-01), Levine et al.
patent: 6249770 (2001-06-01), Erwin et al.
patent: 2002/0035530 (2002-03-01), Ervolini et al.

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