US 8,527,446 B2Granted

Information integrity rules framework

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsBrian Patrick Byrne, Guenter Anton Sauter

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Abstract

An information integrity rules framework manages rules across heterogeneous enforcement systems by managing canonical rules that are mapped to native rules and enforcement system-specific rules. The information integrity rules framework discovers an existing native rule utilized by an enforcement system, which is written in an enforcement system-specific format. Next, the information integrity rules framework creates a mapping entry and maps the native rule to a canonical rule, which is independent from the enforcement system. When the information integrity rules framework detects a change to one of the rules managed by the framework, the information integrity rules framework propagates the change to other corresponding rules across enforcement systems managed by the framework.

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Dependent claims

A computer program product stored in a computer readable storage device, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions for managing a plurality of rules, wherein the plurality of rules include one or more native rules and one or more canonical rules, the actions including:

selecting one or more business terms, wherein each of the one or more selected business terms corresponds to one or more standardized business definitions;
identifying one or more data structures utilized by a first enforcement system that are equivalent to the one or more selected business terms;
identifying one of the one or more native rules utilized by the first enforcement system that includes at least one of the one or more equivalent data structures, the identified native rule written in a first enforcement system-specific format;
and
creating a mapping entry that maps the identified native rule to a selected one of the canonical rules, wherein the selected canonical rule includes one or more of the one more selected business terms, and wherein the selected canonical rule is written in a canonical format that is independent from the first enforcement system-specific format.

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An information handling system comprising:

one or more processors;
a memory accessible by at least one of the processors;
a nonvolatile storage area accessible by at least one of the processors;
a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions for managing a plurality of rules, wherein the plurality of rules include one or more native rules and one or more canonical rules, the actions including:
selecting one or more business terms, wherein each of the one or more selected business terms corresponds to one or more standardized business definitions;
identifying one or more data structures utilized by a first enforcement system that are equivalent to the one or more selected business terms;
identifying one of the one or more native rules utilized by the first enforcement system that includes at least one of the one or more equivalent data structures, the identified native rule written in a first enforcement system-specific format;
and
creating a mapping entry that maps the identified native rule to a selected one of the canonical rules, wherein the selected canonical rule includes one or more of the one more selected business terms, and wherein the selected canonical rule is written in a canonical format that is independent from the first enforcement system-specific format.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

selecting one or more business terms, wherein each of the one or more selected business terms corresponds to one or more standardized business definitions;
identifying one or more data structures utilized by a first enforcement system that are equivalent to the one or more selected business terms;
identifying one of the one or more native rules utilized by the first enforcement system that includes at least one of the one or more equivalent data structures, the identified native rule written in a first enforcement system-specific format;
and
creating a mapping entry that maps the identified native rule to a selected one of the canonical rules, wherein the selected canonical rule includes one or more of the one more selected business terms, and wherein the selected canonical rule is written in a canonical format that is independent from the first enforcement system-specific format.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.