International Business Machines Corporation

Avraham Zehavi

Clark Debs Jeffries

Everett Arthur Corl, Jr

Victoria Sue Thio

Olga Golovanevsky

Randall William Worzella

Alex Warshavsky

Robert Franklin Kantner, Jr

A method and system for storing a plurality of filter rules in a computer system is disclosed. The plurality of filter rules uses at least one range of values in at least one dimension. The method and system include separating a portion of the plurality of filter rules into a plurality of pure subsets of filter rules. Each of the plurality of pure subsets of filter rules includes at least one of the plurality of filter rules. The method and system also include combining a portion of the plurality of pure subsets of filter rules to provide a combined subset and determining whether an efficiency of utilizing the plurality of filter rules is improved by combining the portion of the plurality of pure subsets of filter rules. The method and system further includes storing the plurality of filter rules including storing the portion of the plurality of subsets of filter rules as the combined subset if the efficiency of searching the plurality of filter rules is improved.

Method and system for partitioning filter rules for multi-search enforcement

A method and system for graphically representing relationships between a plurality of filter rules in a computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a display. Each of the plurality of filter rules has a priority. The method and system include allowing entry of at least one filter rule of the plurality of filter rules and providing a graphical display of a first portion of the plurality of filter rules on the display. Each of the first portion of the plurality of filter rules is displayed hierarchically based on the priority of each of the first portion of the plurality of filter rules. If the first portion of plurality of filter rules includes a plurality of intersecting filter rules, then displaying the plurality of intersecting filter rules in the graphical display to indicate at least one intersection of at least one higher priority filter rule and at least one lower priority filter rule and to indicate that the at least one higher priority filter rule dominates the at least one lower priority filter rule.

Method and system for determining and graphically representing frame classification rule relationships

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Avraham Zehavi