US 9,002,770 B2 · Editing and compiling business rules

Abstract

A component in a graph-based computation having data processing components connected by linking elements representing data flows is updated by receiving a rule specification, generating a transform for transforming data based on the rule specification, associating the transform with a component in the graph-based computation, and in response to determining that a new rule specification has been received or an existing rule specification has been edited, updating the transform associated with the component in the graph-based computation according to the new or edited rule specification. A computation is tested by receiving a rule specification including a set of rule cases, receiving a set of test cases, each test case containing a value for one or more of the potential inputs, and for each test case, identifying one of the rule cases that will generate an output given the input values of the test case.

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Dependent claims

A method for managing one or more rules applied to data in a data storage system, the method including:

receiving, over an input device or port, data from the data storage system;
and
processing, with at least one processor, at least a portion of the received data according to a rule specified by at least a portion of a rule specification, the processing including
displaying, in an editor interface, a plurality of portions of the rule specification,
applying the rule to one or more records of the received data to obtain result information, wherein applying the rule includes applying the rule to input values in the received data to generate output values, and
displaying, in the editor interface, at least a portion of the result information in association with a particular displayed portion of the rule specification, wherein displaying at least a portion of the result information includes displaying a result of a comparison of the generated output values with other output values, and the other output values include output values generated for a previous version of the rule specification.

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A method for managing one or more rules applied to data in a data storage system, the method including:

receiving, over an input device or port, data from the data storage system;
and
processing, with at least one processor, at least a portion of the received data according to a rule specified by at least a portion of a rule specification, the processing including
displaying, in an editor interface, a plurality of portions of the rule specification, wherein a portion of the rule specification includes one or more rule cases, and at least one rule case defines a condition for each of one or more potential inputs,
applying the rule to one or more records of the received data to obtain result information, and
displaying, in the editor interface, at least a portion of the result information in association with a particular displayed portion of the rule specification, wherein displaying at least a portion of the result information includes displaying an indication of triggered rule cases for which the rule case's defined condition was satisfied for input values in the received data as the potential inputs, and displaying a count of a number of times a triggered rule case triggered for different sets of input values in the received data.

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Software stored on a computer-readable medium, for managing one or more rules applied to data in a data storage system, the software including instructions for causing a computing system to:

receive, over an input device or port, data from the data storage system;
and
process, with at least one processor, at least a portion of the received data according to a rule specified by at least a portion of a rule specification, the processing including
displaying, in an editor interface, a plurality of portions of the rule specification, wherein a portion of the rule specification includes one or more rule cases, and at least one rule case defines a condition for each of one or more potential inputs,
applying the rule to one or more records of the received data to obtain result information, and
displaying, in the editor interface, at least a portion of the result information in association with a particular displayed portion of the rule specification, wherein displaying at least a portion of the result information includes displaying an indication of triggered rule cases for which the rule case's defined condition was satisfied for input values in the received data as the potential inputs, and displaying a count of a number of times a triggered rule case triggered for different sets of input values in the received data.

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A computing system for managing one or more rules applied to data in a data storage system, the computing system including:

an input device or port configured to receive data from the data storage system;
and
at least one processor configured to process at least a portion of the received data according to a rule specified by at least a portion of a rule specification, the processing including
displaying, in an editor interface, a plurality of portions of the rule specification, wherein a portion of the rule specification includes one or more rule cases, and at least one rule case defines a condition for each of one or more potential inputs,
applying the rule to one or more records of the received data to obtain result information, and
displaying, in the editor interface, at least a portion of the result information in association with a particular displayed portion of the rule specification, wherein displaying at least a portion of the result information includes displaying an indication of triggered rule cases for which the rule case's defined condition was satisfied for input values in the received data as the potential inputs, and displaying a count of a number of times a triggered rule case triggered for different sets of input values in the received data.

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A computing system for managing one or more rules applied to data in a data storage system, the computing system including:

means for receiving data from the data storage system;
and
means for processing at least a portion of the received data according to a rule specified by at least a portion of a rule specification, the processing including
displaying, in an editor interface, a plurality of portions of the rule specification, wherein a portion of the rule specification includes one or more rule cases, and at least one rule case defines a condition for each of one or more potential inputs,
applying the rule to one or more records of the received data to obtain result information, and
displaying, in the editor interface, at least a portion of the result information in association with a particular displayed portion of the rule specification, wherein displaying at least a portion of the result information includes displaying an indication of triggered rule cases for which the rule case's defined condition was satisfied for input values in the received data as the potential inputs, and displaying a count of a number of times a triggered rule case triggered for different sets of input values in the received data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Editing and compiling business rules

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