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Sidney Bailin

Ian Klein

David Witten

Data-driven rules are eliminated from an application, and replaced with goal-driven rules that formally and completely characterize high-level business concepts, while enabling the resulting goal-driven rules to be executed eagerly using a forward chaining rule engine in a way that preserves the data-driven behavior of the original rules. A computer-implemented method for executing business rules provides a unified rule that encapsulates a goal-oriented rule with triggering information selected from dependencies of the goal-oriented rule. The unified rule may be eagerly executed in response to changes in data specified by the dependencies, or lazily executed in response to a request for the value computed by the rule.

Method and system for configuring rules for execution

A device for capturing commentary, rationale, and other explanatory information pertaining to a document in parallel with the authoring of the document itself. The document content is entered through a primary input device (), typically but not restricted to keyboard and mouse, and the commentary is entered through a secondary input device () of a different medium, such as speech captured by a microphone. The comments are linked to the corresponding locations in the main document by a memory controller (), which stores the linked structure in the computer memory () and sends it to an output device (), typically but not restricted to a computer monitor display, for presentation of the annotated document to the operator.

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Sidney Bailin