Automatic determination of selective message caching to support rules in a trading partner collaboration management environment

An information processing system for selective caching of trading partner transaction messages in a trading partner collaboration environment, the information processing system comprising:

• a memory;
• a processor communicatively coupled to the memory;
• and
• a trading partner collaboration manager communicatively coupled to the memory and the processor, the trading partner collaboration manager being configured to:
• receive at least one transaction message, the transaction message being a trading partner transaction message;
• analyze at least a first trading partner business rule, the first trading partner business rule enforcing at least one trading partner agreement between at least two trading partners, and the first trading partner business rule including an unconditional expression based on a vocabulary;
• identify, based on the analyzing, at least one of a first set of fields and a first set of parameters within the first trading partner business rule;
• compare the at least one of the first set of fields and the first set of parameters to at least one of a second set of fields and a second set of parameters in the transaction message;
• determine whether the at least one of the first set of fields and the first set of parameters reference the at least one of the second set of fields and the second set of parameters;
• in response to determining that the at least one of the first set of fields and the first set of parameters of the first trading partner business reference the at least one of the second set of fields and the second set of parameters of the transaction message, selectively cache at least a portion of the transaction message in a transaction history cache, the portion of the transaction message comprising the at least one of the second set of fields and the second set of parameters referenced by the first trading partner business rule, which are utilized by the first trading partner business rule to enforce the at least one trading partner agreement;
• determine whether the transaction message is associated with a second trading partner business rule;
• and
• in response to determining that the transaction message is associated with the second trading partner business rule, determine whether a transaction associated with the transaction message satisfies a trading partner agreement associated with the second trading partner business rule, wherein determining whether the transaction satisfies the trading partner agreement comprises:
• identifying at least one condition within the second trading partner business rule;
• determining, based on data within the transaction message and previous transaction message data residing in the transaction history cache, whether the at least one condition is satisfied;
• in response to the at least one condition being satisfied, determining that the transaction satisfies the trading partner agreement;
• and
• in response to the at least one condition failing to be satisfied, determining that the transaction fails to satisfy the trading partner agreement,
• wherein the previous transaction message data is associated with at least one prior trading partner transaction message that was received prior to the transaction message.

A non-transitory computer program storage product for selective caching of trading partner transaction messages in a trading partner collaboration environment, the computer program storage product comprising instructions for:

• receiving at least one transaction message, the transaction message being a trading partner transaction message;
• analyzing at least a first trading partner business rule, the first trading partner business rule enforcing at least one trading partner agreement between at least two trading partners, and the first trading partner business rule including an unconditional expression based on a vocabulary;
• identifying, based on the analyzing, at least one of a first set of fields and a first set of parameters within the first trading partner business rule;
• determining that the at least one of a first set of fields and a first set of parameters of the first trading partner business rule reference at least one of a second set of fields and a second set of parameters of the transaction message, selectively caching at least a portion of the transaction message in a transaction history cache, the portion of the transaction message comprising the at least one of the second set of fields and the second set of parameters referenced by the first trading partner business rule, which are utilized by the first trading partner business rule to enforce the at least one trading partner agreement;
• determining whether the transaction message is associated with a second trading partner business rule;
• and
• in response to determining that the transaction message is associated with the second trading partner business rule, determining whether a transaction associated with the transaction message satisfies a trading partner agreement associated with the second trading partner business rule, wherein determining whether the transaction satisfies the trading partner agreement comprises:
• identifying at least one condition within the second trading partner business rule;
• determining, based on data within the transaction message and previous transaction message data residing in the transaction history cache, whether the at least one condition is satisfied;
• in response to the at least one condition being satisfied, determining that the transaction satisfies the trading partner agreement;
• and
• in response to the at least one condition failing to be satisfied, determining that the transaction fails to satisfy the trading partner agreement,
• wherein the previous transaction message data is associated with at least one prior trading partner transaction message that was received prior to the transaction message.