Oracle International Corporation

Thierry Bonfante

Jeremy Ashley

Celine Beck

Artashes Gamarian

Sherry Mead

Angus Graham

Rozita Naghshin

Reza Etemadi

A method, apparatus, and system for an interface for expanding logical combinations based on relative placement are provided. Logical combinations are built using a consistent logical layout specifying logical operators and order of operations based on direction of expansion and relative positions. The interface allows the user to add or move objects at specific positions relative to existing objects to select the logical operators for integrating the objects into the logical combination. Based on the specific pathway that the direction follows, an associated logical operator is selected to connect an existing object to the new or moved object. The logical combinations that are built in Visual Information Builder (VIB) can be automatically translated into corresponding business rule code for evaluation and execution by a rules engine.

Interface for expanding logical combinations based on relative placement

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing a user interface including a dynamic visualization of an entire current context of a user, which facilitates understanding and communicating the business knowledge in collaborative business processes. According to embodiments of the present invention, these visualizations can be context sensitive and dynamically adapted to the business process metadata, user's roles, user's location, and the applicable tasks. Embodiments of the present invention provide visualizations of the evolution of the entire context including digital information and the relationships between changed items. These visualizations can include but are not limited to a 360 view, a network/dependency view, and a time-based view.

Adaptive knowledge navigator

A system and method for facilitating rendering a user interface display screen or portion thereof. An example method includes determining context information associated with a user, wherein the context information includes use job role information; and employing the context information to select one or more visualization types from a set of available visualization types. The method may further include using the context information to provide one or more first user options to select one or more categories of data pertaining to a business task; referencing the one or more categories to facilitate determining one or more data attributes, dimensions, or measures associated with the context information; utilizing the one or more data attributes and the context information to select the one or more visualization types from the set of available visualization types; and providing a second user option to choose a visualization type from among selected visualization types.

Contextualized report building

A method, apparatus, and system for a visual information builder for business rules are provided. By providing an additional interface layer over a general purpose business rule creation interface, role-based and context-sensitive interaction and presentation can be provided to abstract the complexity of the underlying service platform that supports the business rules. Templates are used to provide custom context-sensitive user interfaces and to hide complexity from the user by limiting the scope of the rule dictionary exposed to the user. The general rule building process is uniformly consistent across different contexts and operates similarly at the block and rule scale. Moreover, logical combinations are built using a consistent logical layout specifying logical operators and order of operations based on direction of expansion and relative positions. The logical combinations that are built in VIB can be automatically translated into corresponding business rule code for evaluation and execution by a rules engine.

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